Born in Chicago and raised and educated in the American Southwest, Gleah Powers has led a life by turns grounded and nomadic-a perfect preparation for discovering in herself the voices of Edna and Luna. In her early teens, she lived with her grandmother in Phoenix. At 18, she traveled with the production of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. (Antonioni, suffering from insomnia, liked that Gleah was a worthy opponent at cards. She even taught him to play gin rummy.) Thereafter she studied art in Mexico City and at Cal Arts in Los Angeles; moved to New York where she worked as an actor, model, bartender and administrative assistant to a wealthy philanthropist; and became an explorer and teacher of alternative therapies. These adventures will be detailed in the memoir she is currently writing. Edna and Luna is her first novel. Visit her website at: www.gleahpowers.com
"Edna and Luna is a delight from first sentence to last. One can't
help but love both Edna and Luna for all their flaws and quirkiness
as well as the tremendous courage it takes to simply navigate the
challenges we encounter on this earth. There's humour here,
surprising, delicious observations and comments, curious asides;
Edna and Luna is feminist, yet never formulaic, and each sentence
is precise, luminous. Power's ability to create character, and her
command of detail is truly impressive. This is a book where place
is both specific and universal-details unique to Phoenix, but with
a physicality and relationship to place and circumstance that
belongs to us all. There's tenderness, redemption, and wisdom in
this book-a simple, quiet, credible healing: what we can give to
each other if we would. Powers creates a world you want to stay in,
characters you wish you were meeting in your own supermarket,
characters you wish were knocking at your door." Carol Potter,
author of Some Slow Bees "From a crabby widow who runs over
people's toes with her grocery cart to a woman who chooses fruit by
its vibration, Edna and Luna reminds us that family can be found in
the most unlikely people. The developing bond and each woman's
curious background definitely make the book difficult to put down."
Tammy Gonzales, Associate Editor, Southwestern American Literature
"Brilliantly observed and poignantly funny, Edna and Luna is the
story of two women-a widow and a New Age healer-whose buried pasts
and uncertain futures leave them to discover the complexities of
love, the gifts of friendship, and, ultimately, the joys of
redemption." Marylee MacDonald, author of Bonds of Love and Blood
"Every sentence bursts with something to be moved by, or marvel at.
Two very different women form an improbable friendship: each wants
something different out of life; yet through one another, against
often absurd odds and never quite in the ways they'd hoped for,
each gets what she wants. The southwest of Gleah Powers is
particularly akin to the deep south of Flannery O'Connor. Her
vision is comic, tragic then comic again in wonderfully truthful,
unpredictable twists. Despite taking place in the here and now,
we're steeped in a timeless, off-road America where spiritual
self-search is acted out in primal, private, highly individual
ways, unfiltered by the homogenized fashions and distractions of
the so-called larger world." F.X. Feeney, Critic, LA Review of
Books, Author, Orson Welles: Power, Heart & Soul "A magical
odyssey, both internal and external, through the American Southwest
as sculpted by Gleah Powers. You will not soon forget either Edna
or Luna." Jillian Lauren, NY Times Bestselling author of Some
Girls: My Life in a Harem "Gleah Powers has an uncanny ability to
capture the real, the religious, the natural, and the absurd that
is the Southwest into prose. In this novella, she has reached new
heights in portraying characters that are perfectly flawed living
in a sprawling city amidst an unforgiving, yet magical, Sonoran
Desert. Edna and Luna, in the end, is an oasis for the human soul."
John M. Gist, Founding Editor, Red Savina Review "I fell in love
with this novella from the very first sentence. Gleah Powers is an
angelic writer, telling the vast, wild story of Edna and Luna with
startling economy, sharp tenderness, and searing wit. This is an
essential book to guide us through these uncertain times." Alistair
McCartney, author of The End of the World Book
"Gleah Powers is a prose stylist with a gift for conciseness and
clarity. Using a well-crafted mix of subtle humour and dramatic
tension, she takes the reader through a loving journey of loss,
loneliness, ageing, and fulfilment. Meeting Edna and Luna is a
literary delight." Phil Rice, author of Winter Sun: A Memoir of
Love and Hospice
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