Elderly Woman's Life Turns to Chaos After Robbery in Exciting New Novel

A spunky 86-year-old's life is thrown out of control by threats from local hoodlums in Dorothy Weil's latest novel "A Good Woman."

Cincinnati, Oh (PRWEB) May 5, 2008 -- Mary Lou Friedman, a spunky 86-year-old with an ailing husband, is being threatened by hoodlums in her Cincinnati neighborhood, forcing her to fight for her family and home in Dorothy Weil's latest novel, "A Good Woman" (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008). Two thugs break into her home to steal her television and continually threaten her, leaving Mary Lou desperate and terrified. After the police are unable to catch the criminals, Mary Lou follows her beloved grandson's advice and buys a gun.

Throughout this tender story, told in third person from Mary Lou's perspective, the reader is taken back in time with Mary Lou as she recounts her past experiences that range from the Great Depression to the book's present setting of the early 1990s. The reader's heart will warm with Mary Lou's childhood memories as a wild farm girl all the way through her transition into womanhood and marriage. The stories, which we can all relate to, are nostalgic and haunting.

Weil got the idea for the novel from all the recent media coverage of violent attacks on the elderly. "As the novel developed and expanded, I found I was trying, not just to arouse compassion for people in a desperate situation, but to dramatize for a young audience, who have new challenges, some of the problems their parents and grandparents faced, and in many cases overcame," Weil says.

The reader is truly able to connect with Mary Lou, allowing a clear understanding of her thoughts, hopes and fears as she struggles with the realistic pressures of growing old and losing independence. Weil's combination of superb writing and genuine characters create an important story for all generations.

About the Author:
Dorothy Weil has been writing stories and drawing since she was four-years old, living on a steamboat on the Missouri River at Omaha, Nebraska. She earned degrees at the University of Chicago, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and the University of Cincinnati, where she finished with a doctorate in American Literature. She has taught at the University of Cincinnati and Edgecliff College, creating special courses in women's literature and black literature. Weil has written three novels, a memoir, short stories, and numerous articles for magazines, including humor columns and art reviews for Cincinnati Magazine. She has also written and co-produced many television documentaries, including a prize-winning series about America's rivers. Weil now resides in Cincinnati.

"A Good Woman" (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008) can be purchased through local and online bookstores. For more information visit www.dorothyweil.com. Publicity contact: www.readerviews.com. Review copies available upon request.

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