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Running on Two Different Tracks
Every woman who waited to have a child will understand this story. Eileen Stukane’s determination to become a mother led her to adoption. When agencies said she was “too old,” she found a country that considered her young.
She would not be stopped—until a mystery in Italy almost ended everything. Confronting crisis, she learned how the edge of despair and the brink of salvation need not be two different points but one reality, conferring resilience and wisdom.
Eileen Stukane covers news about the health and economic well-being of New Yorkers for various community newspapers and is a regular contributor to Chelsea Now. She has coauthored four books on women’s health and is the author of The Dream Worlds of Pregnancy. She has held editorial positions at Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Self magazines, and for eight years wrote the “Healthy Eating” column for Food & Wine. Her articles related to women’s health have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, McCall’s, Family Circle, Redbook, and numerous other national publications.
This is a short e-book published by Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. For more information, visit http://shebooks.net.
"Every piece of this masterfully recalled saga hits a sweet spot in the heart or memory."
–Sheila Weller, author of The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour and the Triumph of Women in TV News
"Eileen Stukane tells the story of how joy and grief can co-exist, how broken hearts can still-–unbelievably!–make room for love."
–Ann Hood, bestselling author, most recently, of The Italian Wife
Running On Two Different Tracks is at once heart-breaking and uplifting. Eileen Stukane takes us on two journeys; late life adoption, and then the unexpected, mysterious vanishing of her 33-year-old stepson. Her married stepson leaves his home one day, ostensibly for his business in Italy, and fails to return. The story ranges from the fascinating, labyrinthine bureaucracies of adoption from an orphanage in Lithuania to search for their stepson in Italy, where Eileen and her husband seek help from private detectives, the Italian police, FBI agents. Caring for their adopted daughter, helps to save them from being overwhelmed by the mystery of their missing son.
–Nahid Rachlin, award-winning author of the memoir Persian Girls
She would not be stopped—until a mystery in Italy almost ended everything. Confronting crisis, she learned how the edge of despair and the brink of salvation need not be two different points but one reality, conferring resilience and wisdom.
Eileen Stukane covers news about the health and economic well-being of New Yorkers for various community newspapers and is a regular contributor to Chelsea Now. She has coauthored four books on women’s health and is the author of The Dream Worlds of Pregnancy. She has held editorial positions at Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Self magazines, and for eight years wrote the “Healthy Eating” column for Food & Wine. Her articles related to women’s health have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, McCall’s, Family Circle, Redbook, and numerous other national publications.
This is a short e-book published by Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. For more information, visit http://shebooks.net.
"Every piece of this masterfully recalled saga hits a sweet spot in the heart or memory."
–Sheila Weller, author of The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour and the Triumph of Women in TV News
"Eileen Stukane tells the story of how joy and grief can co-exist, how broken hearts can still-–unbelievably!–make room for love."
–Ann Hood, bestselling author, most recently, of The Italian Wife
Running On Two Different Tracks is at once heart-breaking and uplifting. Eileen Stukane takes us on two journeys; late life adoption, and then the unexpected, mysterious vanishing of her 33-year-old stepson. Her married stepson leaves his home one day, ostensibly for his business in Italy, and fails to return. The story ranges from the fascinating, labyrinthine bureaucracies of adoption from an orphanage in Lithuania to search for their stepson in Italy, where Eileen and her husband seek help from private detectives, the Italian police, FBI agents. Caring for their adopted daughter, helps to save them from being overwhelmed by the mystery of their missing son.
–Nahid Rachlin, award-winning author of the memoir Persian Girls
44 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 13, 2015
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May 21, 2019
Elaine Stukane's true story of simultaneously losing a loved family member to the unknown while welcoming an unknown into her family is both heart wrenching and heartwarming. In this short story Stukane shares her intimate thoughts and feelings about loss and love. I'm looking forward to a sequel.
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