Troyanne Ross
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What you will GAIN by reading this book:
Better understanding of how different family members respond to changes in the family
Greater sense of peace about death and changes that are inevitable
An inside glimpse at the problems of beauty
My Name As A Prayer
Southern charm school owner Troyanne Ross was a beautiful, eccentric and humorous woman who never relinquished her dream of being a star. My Name As A Prayer is a book about healing the mother-daughter relationship just in time.
There are hilarious moments as Troyanne and her daughter wade through both angst and joy. The
book shows Troyanne's heroic work to gain insight in her final year, and witnesses her stunning life review.
It is a story of love, forgiveness and peace that questions current ideas about palliative care and creating a more spiritual death.
New York Times best-selling author William Forstchen said, “It is a profoundly moving work, worthy of national attention. A must-read.”
Chapter One Excerpt: "I've got to buy new shoes." Mother's voice through the telephone receiver sounds confident. I picture her sitting at the faux antique desk in what used to be the dining room, where we never ate.
At the age of 75, my mother has entered a beauty pageant. When she was sixteen, her nineteen-inch waist and smoky blue eyes made her the sweetheart of Sigma Chi at North Carolina State University. Now, nearly six decades later, she hopes to become Miss Senior Sweetheart of America, a contest that I--and most people on the planet, have never heard of.
"They're going to teach us a group number," she says. I have never seen my mother dance, but in her younger days she was a vision of Southern grace in the center of our white-carpeted living room, wearing the tightest dress allowable for a married gal in the 1960s. The kind of woman who made smoking look sexy.