The Rise And Fall Of A Jewish American Princess

by Barbara Rose Brooker

This is a storyabout the rise and fall of Dianne Roseman's rejection, sexual impotence, artistic evolution, and her search for her true self and new choices.

The novel opens in 1960, at a San Francisco airport motel where thirty year old glamorous Charley Berkowitz and Dianne Roseman a twenty year old virgin are spending their wedding night. Dianne and Charley are making love. Charley suddenly stops, and slowly moves away from Dianne. Could be her fault. Is Charley impotent? Why? Or -

She digresses into only a few hors ago when she and Charley were married in a traditional evening wedding at the Fairmont Hotel's Crystal Room.

After an annulment, Dianne remarries on returns home to he parent's house. Without money, Depressed, and without education and financial independence, Dianne remarries on rebound and moves to Happy Valley and gives birth to two daughters. But Dianne is shut down and has buried rage and her and as her obsession grows, she begins to paint and write in her journals. It is in her art that she can express her true feelings and her goals change.

After her divorce, she is moves to San Francisco. It is the late seventies. She enrolls in City College is a single mother, and works and begins selling contemporary art on consignment. She falls in love with Noel David a well known dealer of New York Minimal art. They are in love, but it is a turbulent relationship. She struggles with her career, mother, children, and love. When she is pregnant at forty two, he demands an abortion.

Dianne has a nervous breakdown. She begins therapy and after career events, new choices, and struggle, she triumphs to self awareness and new choices.

632 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2014