{"id":17341,"date":"2011-10-02T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2011-10-02T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T11:55:14","slug":"high-dive-by-cynthia-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/high-dive-by-cynthia-tyler\/","title":{"rendered":"High Dive by Cynthia Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What would you do if you lost a high-paying job, your lover, your home, and even your tricked-out status ride all at once? That’s exactly what happens to 29-year-old Sara Wing, player in the subprime mortgage lending industry, whose life is turned inside out in the space of forty-eight hours when the Southern California housing bubble bursts and she goes from a power position to pool cleaner. Along the way Sara meets and is challenged by a cast of characters from Los Angeles’ diverse community of haves and have-nots. Her experiences capture the invisible, ever-shifting boundary between hope and despair. Peppered with memorable personalities–gay street artists Ritchie and Henry, ill-tempered bad-asses Puff and Super Dave, and an older, wealthy widow who wants to ‘take care’ of Sara–the novel is at once funny, realistic, and compassionate. There is depth and beauty to this contemporary tale of setbacks, self-discovery, and triumph, as Sara Wing, former moneymaker and current pool peon, begins painting a new life–and what a colorful life it is!<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/p>\n

Cynthia Tyler was born and raised in Southern California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in family therapy. She is the author of DESCANSO (Haworth Press, 2005), SHADOW WORK (Haworth Press, 2006), FINDING POLARIS (Yellow Dog Books, 2010), and HIGH DIVE (Yellow Dog Books, 2011). DESCANSO won an Alice B. Certificate and was an Insightout Book Club selection. Tyler’s work has been featured in the online magazine The Baseball Chronicle and appears in the recent anthology, Queer Girls In Class (Peter Lang Publishing, 2010). All of her books are available in digital form at Amazon.<\/p><\/div>\n

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