In 1960s NYC, whenever Nancy’s proud Mother exclaimed, “This sleazy Times Square is my backyard!” Nancy thought, NYC stinks! For her, the bustling streets reeked of loneliness and fear, streets she’d been forced to navigate independently since age three.
At twelve, Nancy dreaded walking herself to the streetwalkers’ corner on Forty-Ninth and Broadway to catch her early morning, crosstown city bus to school. She loathed passing XXX marquis, peepshow windows, and the street people still out in those predawn hours: scantily clad females selling their bodies, horny Johns, sicko pimps, ungodly heroin walkers, and the homeless. All proof that the Big Apple’s rotten!
Other than school or time with her grandmother, Nancy found no salvation. Especially not at home, where she faced the dangerous, dark shadows twisting her mother’s mind. Increasingly alone to face the “Monster in Mother,” Nancy connected to her deepest inner self and embraced her all-knowing, omniscient Whispers, who warned of upcoming dangers and offered wisdom.
With Nancy’s perpetual challenge of just wanting to be a kid, Whispers was Nancy’s enchanting antidote in finding hope, faith, and her unbreakable human spirit while surviving her hellish world.
Whispers, Sinners, and Saints is a multigenerational story of heartbreak, horror, trauma, abuse—and perseverance. At the center are Anna, born in New York in 1959, and her mother, Ann, a Hungarian woman who immigrated to the US in 1957.
Ann was twelve when the Nazis ordered the slum where she’d grown up to be the designated ghetto for all Jews. During that year, most of Ann’s family would disappear or be killed. Her means of survival became the streets, where she removed clothing from corpses and snatched items left behind by those taken to concentration camps. Young Ann witnessed murders, torture, and persecution.
After Anna was born, Mother Ann shared the atrocities she’d endured by physically beating them into her daughter. Ann swore to make her child “pay for all the wrongs done to me in life,” while Anna promised to “grow up and never be like my mother.”
Miraculously, at five months old, baby nna found enduring salvation through an omniscient connection, All Knowing. Yet, Anna craved a human saint to save her. But who? And where would they come from?
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Nancy’s recipe for happiness is to share ideas and deep thoughts and avoid wasting time in superficial conversations and gossip. She has traveled six out of the seven continents. Having grown up in Manhattan and South Florida, she is a xenophile—preferring exposure to various cultures of the world over sand and sun. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Miami, studied Art Appreciation in Europe, attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, studied Kabbalah and Buddhism, and traveled the perimeters of the United States.
Nancy’s philosophy is: “One who laughs loudest, masters pain the best.” Pain offers the opportunity to discover one’s true self and greatest strengths.
Nancy now lives in Colorado. She is an ambivert, and when not writing with her Maltese-poodle “Cookie-Cake” by her side, she enjoys urban hikes, mahjong, scrabble, reiki as a master, and meditation. Above all else, Nancy appreciates quality time with friends and her adult children.
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