(PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- Monica Lee started to write her novel six years ago after going through a divorce. Born into a middle class family in Zambia, she was one of the lucky girls who had the opportunity of a good education. Working as a teacher with two young children she fought hard to survive the unpredictable economy and prejudice against divorced women that prevailed at the time. She later remarried and moved to another country where she decided to continue her unfinished novel after being encouraged by her father-in-law.
Tradition is alive and well in Africa. Mixed with the complexities, contradictions and challenges of modern African society many women are finding happiness to be an elusive dream.
Strong family relationships and culture remain a part of a woman's experience but there is another side as well. Corruption and discrimination cause misery and economic ruination whilst AIDS claims thousands of lives every year. The time is ripe to examine some of the African traditions that allow this situation to continue. The novel is fiction but based on real life situations and poses a challenge for all of us to help effect change.
In her book, A Heart that breaks the Soil the author speaks to her audience with frankness and from experience, sharing the remarkable resilience of some women who cope, forgive and even laugh during the most difficult of situations. It is her story but it will become yours as well as you enter her world of trials and deep sadness, mixed in with friendship and love. Monica has set up a new site where these voices can be heard. Issues to be shared will include how does the modern African woman coexist with her culture? Some traditions can encourage the spread of AIDS and cause other types of suffering. Which traditions are good, which are misunderstood and which should be abandoned?
About the Author
Monica Lee is married and lives with her husband and children in Malaysia. For more details about the book please visit http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E36RBWW and http://mybookmandy.webnode.com/
Monica Lee, +60 129205596, [email protected]
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