Anne Leigh Parrish

Listen to "Anne Leigh Parrish Women Within" on Spreaker. With themes of reproductive rights and feminism, this multi-generational novel presents three women whose paths cross at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance Maynard, fierce, independent and proud, reflects on her long life promoting women’s rights through her career as a professor of history. Eunice Fitch, the perfect caregiver, is often unlucky in love, yet even in middle age refuses to give up searching for the perfect man. Sam Clark is a young aide with a passion for poetry and, small beautiful things, but at war with her own large, ungainly physique. All together they weave a tapestry as rich and complex as the female experience itself. For fans of: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.   About the author: ANNE LEIGH PARRISH is the author of over forty published short stories, and numerous articles on the art and craft of writing, a list of which may be found on her website. Her most recent book, a short story collection, By The Wayside, was published in February 2017 by Unsolicited Press. Earlier titles are All The Roads That Lead From Home, stories (Press 53, 2011); Our Love Could Light The World, stories (She Writes Press, 2013); What Is Found, What Is Lost, a novel (She Writes Press, 2014). Visit her on Facebook and on Twitter.