- Genre:family & relationships
- Sub-genre:Love & Romance
- Language:English
- Pages:248
- eBook ISBN:9798317835637
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Overview
Damaged Goods is a novel about relationships. Friendships, family, and lovers come to life in its pages. Not all relationships are healthy, as the #MeToo tsunami has uncovered. Throughout her life Helen, the protagonist of the novel, has experienced sexual harassment and assault either directly or through friends. The latest is the continued, and uninvestigated disappearances of women from the local Native American tribe.
While her relationships with women continue to be strong and life-affirming, what is the cumulative consequence of her experiences with men? How does she continue to open her tender heart to the possibilities of love?
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Helen is a woman deep into her middle age with robust relationships with women: her mother, her colleague, and her friends. The need to protect her tender heart and a lifetime of sexual harassment and assault has left her with a deep mistrust of men.
Adding to this mistrust is the current situation of the "Disappeareds," the Native Women who have been abducted without a trace from the local Native tribe.
Against this backdrop she meets Nick, a warm and grown-up man who offers her an alternative choice in the pantheon of male partners. Can her past and the tales of her friends stop her from opening up to him? Will she embrace the relationship he is offering with an open heart?
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