Sometimes, It Takes Sharing the Story of Another to Understand Your Own
Debut author Marie Tofipt finds a smooth path to silence her own anguish by translating from the Spanish the memoir of Oti Pettofi, a middle-aged woman who struggles to know why a vast part of her family disintegrated so badly.
Denver, CO and Whitesboro, TX (PRWEB) April 10, 2008 -- Debut author Marie Tofipt finds a smooth path to silence her own anguish by translating from the Spanish the memoir of Oti Pettofi, a middle-aged woman who struggles to know why a vast part of her family disintegrated so badly.
Excerpt from the Introduction:
The child abuse, the betrayed and misunderstood love, the incurable illness; it is all present in her eyes, with a sad dreaming and brown colored pupils. All the times Oti and I have discussions, she looks straight at my eyes and I can see into hers, plenty of doubts. Those of hers are peaceful doubts.
Where else could she go? Nowhere, says my inner self, responding to my own question.
"Do you hate the people who hurt you?" Really, I doubt her intention.
"Judge me after reading the story. If you find in those pages my spirit has that capacity, judge me then."
In Depression Inhabits Me, author Marie Tofipt, by translating the memoirs of Oti Pettofi, shares her concerns for the children of the so-called "third-world countries" lost in the global economy. In many parts of the world, there is an unpleasant and almost universal feeling of being left behind as other, perhaps more fortunate nations, enjoy the high-tech lifestyle and the beautiful things that money can buy. While charging ahead to "catch up" with the rest of the world, the children of these countries all-too-often fall victim to war and abuse.
It is Oti Pettofi and Marie Tofipt's shared vision to help the world to understand these complex issues push forth a campaign to legally protect Latin America's children from abuse at home and in school, to help stabilize societies to ensure a better future for the next generations.
Depression Inhabits Me is a joy to read, narrated with humor and detailed descriptions and enhanced with poems and allegorical paintings. It was written to make others aware of their own hidden handicaps and to aid those who are perhaps going through a physical, emotional, or spiritual hardship of their own.
"I receive Oti's story in parts," writes Marie, "a diary she has written on napkins, white paper sheets, yellow paper sheets, and cut out of old newspapers. Oh! My oddly adorable other half, with her unintelligible, softly-scratched, low voice and speaking-chopped-ideas convinced me. I am committed to writing this story of her."
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1291-4 Format: 8.5x8.5 color paperback SRP: $25.95
Genre: Literary/Latino
About the Author
Marie Tofipt is a former administrative secretary. To learn more about Marie and her upcoming projects, visit www.outskirtspress.com/depressioninhabitsme
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