Hot Flashes
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And then I look up and see Max. He is moving toward me like a mirage, shimmering, quivering, an oasis in a hot, empty desert.
He has his hands upon me. He is giving me a transfusion of strength.
His hands are cool and he is moving me, walking me back toward a patch of green green grass … green as I would have thee green.… And then I see Loren and Lisa and David and Carol in a blur of color and motion coming toward me, coming to get me, coming to contain me, creating a sudden sweet circle that I can reach out to touch and I am touching all of them at the same time and all of us are sobbing and I feel like I’ve come home.
Acknowledgments
I owe much gratitude to my editors, Tom McCormack
and Toni Lopopolo, who made it happen, and
to the National Endowment for the Arts
for helping so many
when help was most needed
About the Author
Barbara Raskin (1936–1999) was a Washington, DC–based journalist and author best known for her novel Hot Flashes. Capturing the feelings of the generation of women born during the Great Depression as they faced middle age, the novel spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list. Raskin wrote four other novels, Current Affairs, Loose Ends, Out of Order, and The National Anthem, as well as articles for numerous publications, including the Washington Post and the New York Times. She received a fiction award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Raskin is survived by Erika, Keith, Jamie, Sarah, Noah, Heather, Emily, Jason, Zachary, Maggie, Asa, Gray, Hannah, Tommy, Tabitha, Mariah, Boman, Daisy, Bobbie, Jedd, Sarah, Eden and Brandon—all of whom wish she didn’t have to leave the party so early.
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Copyright © 1987 by Barbara Raskin
Cover design by Mimi Bark
ISBN: 978-1-5040-3836-2
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