Sometimes I Don't Love My Mother

Sunny Beach, Sydney Greene's fictional home, is a town of irony, more metaphor and paradox than a finger of sand along the ocean. The book paints a vivid symbolism of being so close to nature's perfection while suffering inside a home of conflicting codas. Like many of us who felt the absence of a parent, Sydney uses life as an amplified game of trial and error. She experiences the world with a raw-nerve reality that feels eerily familiar. Caught in the emotional crossfire between...
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Sunny Beach, Sydney Greene's fictional home, is a town of irony, more metaphor and paradox than a finger of sand along the ocean. The book paints a vivid symbolism of being so close to nature's perfection while suffering inside a home of conflicting codas. Like many of us who felt the absence of a parent, Sydney uses life as an amplified game of trial and error. She experiences the world with a raw-nerve reality that feels eerily familiar. Caught in the emotional crossfire between an adoring father and vapid mother, she is forced to navigate the perilous path of childhood, adolescence and adulthood with one parental arm tied behind her back. Sydney is helpless and Herculean, innocent and insatiable. She laments the labyrinth of life but has an almost reflexive or instinctive sense the next day is the guardian of some secret glory or a resounding answer. The book's title is at times a statement, mission statement, and battle cry. As Syd blooms into adulthood, you see her morph into a self-reliant, self-effacing, charming woman who is flawed. Sydney Greene climbs the ladder of her soul, each rung harder than the last, until she finds her spirit.