The Rooms Are Filled - by Jessica Vealitzek (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>The Rooms Are Filled</i> is the moving, 1983 coming-of-age story of two outcasts brought together by circumstance: a Minnesota farm boy transplanted to suburban Chicago after his father dies, and his teacher, a closeted young woman starting over after a failed attempt to live openly. Readers will root for these two as they navigate their new lives, as they attempt to change to become who they are.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Michael, a boy rejected by his schoolmates, and Julia, a schoolteacher confused about her sexual identity, form a lovely, sympathetic bond in Jessica Null Vealitzek's fine first novel.;<i>The Rooms Are Filled</i>;is the story of their struggle to survive in a suburban world full of prejudice and hostility, set against the backdrop of a natural world, which we, like Michael, have lost but still can learn from. Vealitzek writes from the heart. I read this tale of anguish, and of triumph, from cover to cover without stopping. You will too."<br>--Stephen Wetta, author of <i>If Jack's in Love</i> <p/> <br><i>"The Rooms Are Filled</i> is a tender novel about;the beauty and sadness of;those simply learning to live out loud. An ode to truth, the departed who are never truly gone, and the resilient human heart."<br>--Susan Henderson, author of <i>Up from the Blue</i> <p/> "As you read about the seemingly quiet, Midwestern lives of the people of;<i>The Rooms Are Filled</i>, you will suddenly realize that you desperately want them to get everything they're hoping for."<br>--John Warner, <i>Chicago Tribune</i> columnist and author of <i>The Funny Man</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jessica Null Vealitzek is a former reporter and political communications director. She was born and raised northwest of Chicago, where she now lives with her husband and two children. This is her first novel.
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