Scraps

by Juli L. Idleman

Imagine walking through a crowded airport and runninghead-on into your past. It's been so long since the last time you saw it, thatat first you don't even recognize it. Imagine sitting down with your past andbuying it a drink. You study it across the table, attempting to re-familiarizeyourself with its appearance and its sounds, with the very idea of itsexistence. Imagine sitting there while your past asks you questions aboutevents and feelings you haven't permitted yourself to consider in years. It remindsyou of those moments that destroyed you and of those moments that made you,showing you that the two are the same.That's where Nikki finds herself after running intoJonathan, a man she once lived on the streets with when they were bothchildren. He asks her to recount for him a hot summer, twenty-two yearsearlier, when they lived under a bridge with five other people. Grudgingly,after years of pretending that it never happened, Nikki finds herself tellingJonathan about their time together. As she talks, she brings to life the peoplethey knew, the experiences they had and what it was that finally drove themaway.

188 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2003

Reviews

[Penny Hinton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the wonderful pleaseure of knowing Juli personaly and she is truely an awesome person. She has her own oppinion about life and she is not afraid to let anybody know that and she would never let anybody changer her mind about it. This was her first book published and it was fanominal!!!! I could not put it down and she left me wanting to know more!! I keep asking her when she is going to write the sequil but so far she has given me no answer and I don't belive she will ever give me one!!! I would recommend this to anybody who has suffered through hard times in their life, this book will put that into perspective for you and make your hard times not seem quite so bad!!!!