Paths of Promise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780970886019)

Donna Grisanti Though I'm a businesswoman and former nurse, I'm sure many of my relatives and friends thought of me as a "professional student" as I passed from BSN to MSN to MBA. Truly, I'm an advocate of life-long learning and believe no knowledge is wasted. As such I saw my education as an opportunity to support myself, as I worked toward being a writer and author. I'm very grateful to the readers who have enjoyed my first epic, historical novel, Wandering Hearts. However, some may be disappointed because my second novel, Cloud of Witnesses, is not the sequel they've requested. Instead, it is a project that a dear friend advocated that I write for which I used the extensive research I had done years earlier for Wandering Hearts. I think I have explored the lives of the Foster, O. Martin and Walters' families to my satisfaction, but I'm grateful readers want more. Within Wandering Hearts, I was able to portray rural life in America during World War II and the challenges of a multicultural community during that time. Cloud of Witnesses is a novel detailing the modern Civil Rights era as seen through the eyes of a young black woman, her family, her community, and her two collegiate friends. As you may see in my work, I have always been fascinated by the deep, scarring injustice of segregation and by those individuals who step forward and risk themselves for what they think is right. Simply, I am a story-teller, telling of the lives, sights, sounds, and feelings of my characters in their own time and place.