Desert Daughter, by Nancy Key Roeder
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Spanning three generations of women in a family with distressful father-daughter relationships, this story reflects on how one's father affects later choices in life and on the struggle to resolve childhood issues.
When Linda Richardson returns to her girlhood home in the Desert Southwest after her father's death, she begins to uncover the reasons for her nonchalance about his passing. As she struggles to make sense of what should be a sad time for her, she sorts out the many steps taken to eliminate the emotional damage of a painful father-daughter relationship in order to move on with her life. She also sees the shadows cast over the lives of her mother and daughter by difficulties with male parental figures. In this episodic tale of three generations of women, the reader will discover how each woman finds the seeds of feminine strength within herself to transform hurts into healing and wistfulness into wisdom. Underlying the narrative is a journey of spiritual awakening, dramatized in a final scene that will remain with readers long after the book ends.
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"Desert Daughter is a unique and vividly descriptive novel about daughters who have been 'invisible' or neglected by their fathers and how that affects their ensuing relationships with men as well as their own creativity. Nancy Roeder's luminous descriptions of nature are contrasted with the subtlety of wounds that are often ignored as 'normal' occurrences, but which leave women passive and unable to own their worth. This book offers deep insight for anyone (men included) who has dealt with father-daughter issues, and it shows how women can transform, reclaim their strength and bloom." — Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., author of The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship and On The Way to the Wedding
Desert Daughter, by Nancy Key Roeder- Published on: 2015-09-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .57" w x 5.50" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 226 pages
Review NOT JUSTFOR WOMENUsually books by and about women are classifiedas "chick lit," thus marginalizing many fine works that men would both enjoyand profit from. Nancy Key Roeder's DesertDaughter is one such work. Justas the author explored and healed her relationship with her mother in her firstbook, Going to the Well, in her new opus,Roeder delves into the sere and arid territory of absent fathers--not physicallyabsent, but emotionally detached, indifferent--the kind of nonviolent abuse thatcan lead female children to dysfunctional marriages, stifled creativity andtroubled parenting later in life. Set in the American Southwest and spanningsix decades from the 1930s through the 90s, the author creates a vivid sense ofplace that mirrors the atmosphere in which she grew up. Butdeserts, as any lover of the Southwest knows, are far from lifeless. Afortunately timed rainstorm can cause the land and its tough and patient plantlife to blaze with extravagant color. Thus, Linda Richardson, the protagonistof this tale, blooms into mature womanhood and rapprochement with the daughterwho grew up in the same literal and figurative desert. Thisis a great story that will offer unique insights into the finer skills ofbecoming successful and adored fathers. So, ladies, buy it for yourselves andpass it on to the young dads in your circle. JaneLawlessEditor(ret.)Chicago Quarterly Review
About the Author
Nancy Key Roeder is a retired high school English teacher. She grew up in New Mexico, beginning her work career as a reporter and feature writer for The Albuquerque Tribune.
Subsequently, she published numerous free-lance articles and essays in local and regional newspapers and nationally distributed magazines.
Nancy holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from San Francisco University and a Master of Social Science degree from the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a member of the Denver Women s Press Club and enjoys reading, playing the piano, and attending drama productions and symphony concerts.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The vivid ways the author chose to describe her revelations were beautiful and not unlike the New Mexico sunsets and surrounds . By Ann Willis I found this book to be an insightful and honest exploration by a woman as she moves through her life and slowly begins to see how much her father shaped her from earliest childhood on. The vivid ways the author chose to describe her revelations were beautiful and not unlike the New Mexico sunsets and surrounds that played such a part in her personal awakening: hauntingly stark but beautiful and colorful. She was a girl formed out of the unique World War II era, while still engaged in a timeless drama of gaining self-awareness. In this book I was treated to the inner inquiries of a young woman coming of age, realizing the role of significant men in her life, and how vital those same influences are as the back-drama for the person each one of us becomes.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Homecoming By Story Circle Book Reviews Are you drawn to the subdued hues and extreme contrasts of the desert Southwest? This novel may appeal to you, for the author describes in artful detail the arid landscapes of New Mexico and Arizona. In Desert Daughter, Nancy Key Roeder paints a picture of the place she grew up and returns to live, through the eyes of her fictional character, Linda.The constant and vast desert Southwest is the backdrop for this story of a woman searching for answers about her relationship with her father.She wonders about her background, her place in the family. Questions plague her and reverberate through the places she remembers growing up. A fitting setting, this desert wasteland, where she felt abandoned by her absent father. Her tale evolves in a progression of time like a slowly sinking desert sun, from her childhood to adulthood and then motherhood. The story concludes as Linda and her daughter return from the coast of California to the Southwest to live.In some places, this barren land flourishes as irrigation ditches bring water to fields and towns to nourish the lives of desert denizens. From a seemingly deprived setting, springs beauty and regeneration. Similarly, Linda's internal life reflects these cycles of the desert.This book evokes a strong sense and power of place. In this excerpt, the author launches a stream of her feelings about where she has lived."Home was not just the physical spaces where she had grown up. Home was not something static. Home happened. Home happened whenever and wherever new growth took place. Home happened on the walk in the desert. Home happened at the dunes at the edge of the Pacific Ocean...Home happened in these very moments when she walked along the banks of an irrigation canal carrying water to thirsty crops."Through contemplation and revisiting her past with her daughter, Linda arrives at a place where she reaches understanding and acceptance of how she was raised. The resolution of her feelings and new perspective is one aspect of her story that resonated with me and perhaps others would enjoy.by Martha Meachamfor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This Guy "Charlie" Liked It By Maria Grabbed my Wife's Book on a Trip.OK, let me start with full disclosure ... I am a guy reading my wife's book in New Mexico while on a brief getaway to this Land of Enchantment. Also, I must admit that I (who am slowly developing my feminine side) am enjoying this read.Ms Roeder has a way with words and her imagery comes through loud and clear. Also, having grown up in a German Catholic household in the Midwest, I have no trouble identifying with the faux logic of the father's rules and regulations.
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