My Next Husband Will Be Normal A St John Adventure eBook Rae Ellen Lee
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Lee and her husband, Tom ditch their sailboat on the West Coast and fly to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a down payment for a mom and pop business on St. John. The plan when they aren’t sewing canvas bags at their little shop, The Canvas Factory, they’ll be beach potatoes. But there are risks to living in paradise one cannot anticipate, especially on an island where residents bask in the mantra You can do anything you want, as long as the rest of us know about it. For soon after unpacking their flip-flops, the husband—a former Republican state legislator with a silver crew-cut and solid traditional values—realizes he is really a she. Convinced the world needs more humor, Lee rations the angst in favor of the picturesque and absurd. Adding heat to the story is a cast of colorful cats, customers, and Caribbean personalities. Toss in a few sex toys, some steel pan music, a pinch of voodoo—and stir.
My Next Husband Will Be Normal A St John Adventure eBook Rae Ellen Lee
Wouldn't every middle aged woman love to meet a tall, handsome, intelligent, eligible man? Wouldn't everyone love to quit the job and become self-employed? Wouldn't everyone love to go back to the island paradise of fond vacation memories and live there forever?Sometimes reality DOES bite. In the author's case, being "self-employed" meant "husband-employed." It also meant long days bent over a sewing machine trying to create enough canvas bags to sell for enough income to keep the wolf from the door. And the door was on a shed with no plumbing. And there were six of those long days every week.
But wait! She's still got the tall, handsome, intelligent man, right? Not really. In the islands ANYTHING GOES and this father of six and former Republican state senator took advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to make some serious changes. A flippy blonde "do," colorful silky clothes, waxed body hair, girly sandals, and (in the words of his bewildered wife) "he's one pearl necklace away from being June Cleaver."
With the grace and courage of a true philosopher and a gutsy broad, the author writes about this sad, bizarre situation with humor and kindness. Paradise is something we only see from a distance and she lost a husband, but kept a friend. And who knows, maybe her next husband WILL be normal!
I liked her book I ONLY CUSS WHEN I'M SAILING, although this one is my favorite.
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My Next Husband Will Be Normal A St John Adventure eBook Rae Ellen Lee Reviews
Having spent the last several years vacationing on St. John, and recently considering a move there with my husband, I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Lee's account of her adventure, and the major unexpected life changes she experienced along with it. With humor, honesty, and a lot of self reflection, she explores her own emotional and spiritual journey as she experiences changes in her marriage, while affectionately describing the quirkiness of life on a small Caribbean island. I appreciated her frankness on the challenges, and frequent lack of comforts, that come with "living in paradise," while at the same time enjoying her warm-hearted descriptions of the characters (real people), natural beauty, and the "island time" that I have grown to love myself.
Do you dream of escaping to a Caribbean paradise? Rae Ellen Lee and her husband Tom do just that, open their own shop and cope with paradise living bugs, impossible roads, inadequate transportation, high rent and did I mention bugs! Rivers of termites and endless cockroaches. I kept wondering when Rae Ellen would escape from paradise!
"My Next Husband Will Be Normal." Yes, my subtitle for this memoir would be "Escape from Paradise." And there are entirely too many bugs in it despite the descriptions of incredible beauty. Yeah, I am rather bug intolerant despite being a Master Gardener in two states. (They are actually more interesting under a microscope.)
But I digress. Rae Ellen Lee has such a pioneer spirit to endure so much. Strung together with humor, she shares an intimate look at the unraveling of a traditional marriage. Tom begins with occasional cross dressing, followed by a shift in style (he was a conservative Republican legislator before the move to St. John.) Pink shorts, a weekly manicure and pedicure and an increasing interesting in researching transgender web sites, are Tom's unfolding into his second self, repressed until the Carribbean winds blow in with the promise of inner freedom.
Rae Ellen Lee grabs her best tool humor and proceeds to drape herself in denial, false hope and frequent trips to the chiropractor as her life begins to dissemble. She tries affirmations and a series of self help approaches but Tom walks directly toward his future self with a magnetic pull. While her love shifts, she continues to live with and try to understand that Tom is no longer the man she married. She hopes it isn't true but the truth keeps resurfacing.
Without revealing the conclusions to this compelling story, I will say that Rae Ellen Lee wants to retain one thing, her friendship with the man she loved. It seems impossible. Read this unique book to understand what happens.
Wouldn't every middle aged woman love to meet a tall, handsome, intelligent, eligible man? Wouldn't everyone love to quit the job and become self-employed? Wouldn't everyone love to go back to the island paradise of fond vacation memories and live there forever?
Sometimes reality DOES bite. In the author's case, being "self-employed" meant "husband-employed." It also meant long days bent over a sewing machine trying to create enough canvas bags to sell for enough income to keep the wolf from the door. And the door was on a shed with no plumbing. And there were six of those long days every week.
But wait! She's still got the tall, handsome, intelligent man, right? Not really. In the islands ANYTHING GOES and this father of six and former Republican state senator took advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to make some serious changes. A flippy blonde "do," colorful silky clothes, waxed body hair, girly sandals, and (in the words of his bewildered wife) "he's one pearl necklace away from being June Cleaver."
With the grace and courage of a true philosopher and a gutsy broad, the author writes about this sad, bizarre situation with humor and kindness. Paradise is something we only see from a distance and she lost a husband, but kept a friend. And who knows, maybe her next husband WILL be normal!
I liked her book I ONLY CUSS WHEN I'M SAILING, although this one is my favorite.
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