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"The Outcast"The Outcast is about living our everyday lives in pursuit of happiness--but always in the wrong places. Jennica, the main character, is a self-loathing and absorbed teenager, who sees the wrong doings of others. She is in pursuit of the acceptance of others even when she failed to accept herself. She narrates every aspect of her life in a matter-of-fact way to show her innocence. At the end of the novel, she comes to the realization that she was not an outcast as she believed. She finally settled into a life of bliss because of her acceptance of who she truly was -- "one chosen by God."Jennica uses wide-ranging quotations to represent the author's use of them as personal mantra. It also represents the life of Christ as an outcast on earth, yet a representative of God--a clear indication of our need to be accepted by people, but lacking heaven's backing.

Once upon a simpler time, a child's fun included an intense interaction within its environment, whether on a bus to a beach, swimming lessons in a city pool, or working tobacco fields. Interaction was also between machinery and the processes that made things function such as an icebox, iron furnace, clothesline, or oil jug. She writes of a time before technology took over and computers did all the work. The author recreates with her narrative and photographs a nostalgic reminiscence of those earlier decades for all who grew up in them and introduces the times to those who didn't. She recalls the years when life and living was hands on, when youngsters played and worked hard being part of life's assembly line. Today's children can switch on or plug in to make things function, but the fun is gone and with it, the knowledge of how things work. Lynn lived the first forty-six years of her life in the Frog Hollow section of Hartford, Connecticut. It was growing up in the Frog Hollow during the 1940s and 1950s that is the inspiration for her memoir of childhood during those years.

Though faced with many challenges in her childhood and youth, Nylah was determined to make the best of her life in every way possible. But she met and fell in love with a colleague and friend who was very mean-spirited and wild. Nothing had prepared her for the intensity of sorrow she felt. It was only with the intervention of God''s love that she began to record her life story trying to capture the paradox of love and grief. These were scars. But what can she make of them? As Nylah exposes her deepest feelings and fears and the truth about her life and shattering disappointments, she appreciates the Scars as beauty within that ultimately bloomed into profound wisdom and love.Beautiful Scars is an homage to the woman she has become instead of the woman society has made her be. It will touch any reader who has felt powerless in familial love.Lynn Davis is a gifted illustrator in acting, singing and creative writing. She communicates her years of experience in various multifaceted creations she was involved in, in high school, college and a job in a drama production company in this novel.She received her B.A. (Hons.) in English Language and literature from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone where she was awarded the best actress in 1993. She also earned her Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and M.B.A from the Institute of Public Administration and Management, University of Sierra Leone and her doctorate from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.When she is not writing she enjoys cooking, singing and dancing. Lynn is presently an adjunct professor. She lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota with two of her three children.

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