Apart From Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984993208)

Apart from Love is not your typical love story. It is all-consuming, heart-wrenching, and dark.

My Own Voice ("As told by Anita"):

Falling in love with Lenny should have been the end to all of Anita's troubles. But then, family secrets start unraveling. His ex-wife, Natasha, is succumbing to a mysterious disease. How can Anita compete with her shadow? How can she find a voice of her own?

And when his estranged son, Ben, comes back and lives in the same small apartment, can she keep the balance between the two men, whose desire for her is marred by guilt and blame?

Coming back to his childhood home after years of absence, Ben is unprepared for the secret, which is now revealed to him: his mother, Natasha, who used to be a brilliant pianist, is losing herself to mysterious disease, which turns the way her mind works into a riddle. His father's new wife, Anita, looks remarkably similar to her-only much younger.

"In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive-but so seldom do you give it to others." What emerges in this family is a struggle, a desperate, daring struggle to find a path out of conflicts, out of isolation, from guilt to forgiveness.