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Susan Russo Anderson

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Susan Russo Anderson is a writer, a mother, a member of Sisters in Crime, a graduate of Marquette University. She's taught language arts and creative writing, worked for a publisher, an airline, an opera company. Like Faulkner's Dilsey, she's seen the best and the worst, the first and the last. Through it all, and to understand it somewhat, she writes.

TOO QUIET IN BROOKLYN, the first in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series published December 2013. The second book in the series, MISSING BRANDY, published September 2014, and WHISKEY'S GONE completes a trilogy. The working title of the fourth is DEAD IN BROOKLYN.
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Susan Russo Anderson Hi Linda, Thanks so much for reading and reviewing my book. I can't tell you how much that means to me! And now to try and answer your question. It's …moreHi Linda, Thanks so much for reading and reviewing my book. I can't tell you how much that means to me! And now to try and answer your question. It's so thought provoking and complex and you've zeroed in on one of Fina's central truths, the love of and death of her mother. For her it is a loss that is never finished, never really understood, a grief that goes on and grows. Fina wouldn't exist without it. And, yes, I am very close to my mother as you must be to yours. (less)
Susan Russo Anderson Hi Lorena, This is a great question. Although I'd been writing all my life, keeping diary after diary, I'd never done anything with them. But after my…moreHi Lorena, This is a great question. Although I'd been writing all my life, keeping diary after diary, I'd never done anything with them. But after my husband died suddenly and I was quite raggedy, I discovered that the way to feel good was to write. I began with short stories, and the stories kept growing. Now I've published seven novels and I'm writing my eighth.(less)
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An Invitation: Meet Fina Fitzgibbons

Fina Fitzgibbons, short and stocky, born and bred in Brooklyn, is an orphan in her late twenties and the protagonist of an eight-book mystery series, the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn Mysteries. She’s a descendant of Serafina Florio—her great-great, or perhaps great-great-great grandmother from whom she inherited ginger curls and jade eyes. Serafina the elder is the […]
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“You think a woman has to have offspring to have a life? Do you think that’s it for us?”
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“from Soho”
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“THE TREE AND THE BOY”
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“ I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn.
Baby, drink milk.
Baby, play ball.
And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”
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“THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
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“When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
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“La solitudine non è mai con voi; è sempre senza di voi, e soltanto possibile con un estraneo attorno: luogo o persona che sia, che del tutto vi ignorino, che del tutto voi ignoriate, così che la vostra volontà e il vostro sentimento restino sospesi e smarriti in un’incertezza angosciosa e, cessando ogni affermazione di voi, cessi l’intimità stessa della vostra coscienza. La vera solitudine è in un luogo che vive per sé e che per voi non ha traccia né voce, e dove dunque l’estraneo siete voi”
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“Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.”
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Robert Thanks for accepting my friend request, Susan.


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Susan Anderson Douglas wrote: "Susan,
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Douglas"


You're welcome, Douglas!


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Douglas Wickard Susan,
Thank you for your Goodreads friendship!
Douglas


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Becca Hi Susan :)


Kelly/yllektra Thank you for the friend invite! :)
And ...Merry Christmas!


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Susan Anderson You're welcome, Michelle


Michelle Hey Susan, thanks for the add :)


KaSonndra Leigh Thanks for reaching out Susan. I hope you have a great day!

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Tracey Thanks for the friend invite!


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Gary Revel Thanks for the add SUSAN.
It's great to have you as a friend.

My memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOTis at Barnes and Noble

It includes details of my birth in Folrala, Alabama, youth in Niceville, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Bartow and Bonifay, Florida, high school-Holmes County High School, US Navy Service in San Diego, California, music business in Hollywood, Memphis, Nashville, my investigation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, recording and releasing the single record of the song about the MLK assassination, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER and more.

Paperback and Nook Book

Links to more Jongleur books and book sellers.


Harlequin Books Hello Susan, it is a pleasure to meet you.


Pamela Hey Susan...Thanks for accepting my friend request.


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Rai Hello Susan,

Thank-you for your friendship! It's very nice to meet you :)

~Rai


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