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Book Excerpt
Rose Mwiti seemed utterly alone, sliding from her chair onto her knees on the dirt floor. Her eyes were wide, but unseeing. She looked past Sara as if seeing through her, through the wall, out beyond Mathare Valley and straight into some unimaginable pit of hell. The small child she had sent running had returned and ran towards his mother, dropping a think plastic bag so that the glass-bottled Cokes inside it dropped out and rolled along the ground. Clutching the child seemed to quiet her slightly, but, still she kept up the other-worldly wailing.
Maybe she won't stop, Sara thought, until God answers.
The sound of Rose Mwiti's shrieking must have rattled the ground beneath them. Neighbors came pouring in, shaking heads and clicking tongues and snapping back and forth at each other. The scene was quickly descending into a chaos of grief.
About the Author
Debra Pickett is best known for the “Sunday Lunch With …” column she wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for five years. Interviewing notable figures from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to Bears player Chris Zorich, she learned that she did, indeed, have ways of making people talk. It’s a skill that has also come in handy when eliciting confessions from her three rambunctious sons.
REPORTING LIVES is Debra’s first novel. She lives in Wisconsin with her family and, when she’s not too busy working on her second book or sussing out who’s responsible for flooding the bathroom, she manages a boutique PR firm serving lawyers and their clients.
Book Description
Local TV reporter Sara Simone gets the chance of a lifetime – an assignment to follow a story from Chicago to Nairobi, Kenya. She’s certain it will be her big break. But, when she arrives in Kenya and is confronted with the realities of life in its urban slums, she finds herself unable to manage the job she was sent to do. Her great talent, getting grieving people to go on camera and tell the audience how they’re feeling at their lowest moment, feels, suddenly, beyond useless. With the richly described setting of East Africa as its backdrop, REPORTING LIVES chronicles a moment of personal and professional crisis in the life of a complex, fascinating heroine.
Website: www.debrapickett.com
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Debra-Pickett/e...
Book Tour Schedule: http://www.elitebookpromotions.com/bo...
Rose Mwiti seemed utterly alone, sliding from her chair onto her knees on the dirt floor. Her eyes were wide, but unseeing. She looked past Sara as if seeing through her, through the wall, out beyond Mathare Valley and straight into some unimaginable pit of hell. The small child she had sent running had returned and ran towards his mother, dropping a think plastic bag so that the glass-bottled Cokes inside it dropped out and rolled along the ground. Clutching the child seemed to quiet her slightly, but, still she kept up the other-worldly wailing.
Maybe she won't stop, Sara thought, until God answers.
The sound of Rose Mwiti's shrieking must have rattled the ground beneath them. Neighbors came pouring in, shaking heads and clicking tongues and snapping back and forth at each other. The scene was quickly descending into a chaos of grief.
About the Author
Debra Pickett is best known for the “Sunday Lunch With …” column she wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for five years. Interviewing notable figures from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to Bears player Chris Zorich, she learned that she did, indeed, have ways of making people talk. It’s a skill that has also come in handy when eliciting confessions from her three rambunctious sons.
REPORTING LIVES is Debra’s first novel. She lives in Wisconsin with her family and, when she’s not too busy working on her second book or sussing out who’s responsible for flooding the bathroom, she manages a boutique PR firm serving lawyers and their clients.
Book Description
Local TV reporter Sara Simone gets the chance of a lifetime – an assignment to follow a story from Chicago to Nairobi, Kenya. She’s certain it will be her big break. But, when she arrives in Kenya and is confronted with the realities of life in its urban slums, she finds herself unable to manage the job she was sent to do. Her great talent, getting grieving people to go on camera and tell the audience how they’re feeling at their lowest moment, feels, suddenly, beyond useless. With the richly described setting of East Africa as its backdrop, REPORTING LIVES chronicles a moment of personal and professional crisis in the life of a complex, fascinating heroine.
Website: www.debrapickett.com
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Debra-Pickett/e...
Book Tour Schedule: http://www.elitebookpromotions.com/bo...
