Böcker av Eric Garcia

On the surface, Cassandra French is living the typical LA lifestyle. A lawyer at a film studio, she spends her days bored by the tedium of the Business Affairs department, and her evenings either dating a string of useless men or meeting up with her girlfriends to bemoan the uselessness of said men. But luckily none of this matters, because Cassandra French has a vocation. Cassandra is a woman on a mission. And her mission is to reform men. Because how is it that she's got such great girlfriends but she never meets a man worthy of them? How is it that a man can have no conversation skills, no manners, and no fashion sense . . . and still get his pick of beautiful women? Something has to be done.And so, in her basement, she's set up her own finishing school for boys. There, men learn to dress well, to date well, to compliment a woman, to make great dinner conversation, and to leave behind all the arrogance, brutishness, and idiocy that society has bred into them. It's all going brilliantly?her students are happy, Cassandra's succeeding at something she believes in passionately?until she enrolls Jason Kelly, the studio's biggest star. And suddenly Cassie's in over her head. . . .

The Shadows Share is a collection of short stories addressing what happens when we suppress and hide the dark sides of our psyche/being. Each story deals with the shadow side of people and how it compels them to act and think in ways contrary to their everyday lives. The Shadows Share tackles the issue of whether or not we should embrace the dark side of our psyche/being and learn to acknowledge and express it in a productive manner. It poses the question of if it's even possible to let that hidden side of ourselves thrive in a healthy manner. No matter your opinion on the subject we can all agree that our shadow selves need to be identified, acknowledged and addressed before it forces itself to come alive in a disastrous way. One way or another the Shadow will get its Share of life and light.

Is it possible to have it all? If by 'all' you mean irritants building up into one great mess, then that's exactly what Cassandra French has got - a mother who's under house arrest for fraud, a boring job as a lawyer for a Hollywood film studio, and three men in her basement. Actually, the three men are proving to be the least of her worries.