Every Word An Arrow

by Leona Silberberg

Fast paced, powerful and one-of-a-kind, one reviewer calls Every Word an Arrow a "must-read book for anyone getting married or divorced." For those of you who are already married, another reviewer says that this book will give you a "moment of dread" and send you to the home computer to check up on your finances.

Learn about the type of men whom divorce lawyers call 'rat-bastards' and why. Learn the dirty little secrets in the rat-bastard playbook. Learn about the racket known as custody evaluations and about the cronyism among the judges, lawyers and court experts who work in family court and often blur the lines between their professional and personal lives to the detriment of the unsuspecting public.

Follow the story of Josie Blume as she cuts short her overseas engineering career to get married and start a family when she thought she’d found the perfect man. Richard is ten years her senior, tall and athletic with thick black hair and piercing green eyes and the successful scion of a wealthy San Francisco family.

After a decade of marriage and two children, Josie finds herself alone in her suburban Bay Area house, her career gone and her husband using his family’s money to destroy her. She enters an alien world and is thrown into the ravenous jaws of the divorce industry. Shaken to the core by what she discovers on her sojourn through our family courts, she emerges as a resilient and resolute warrior for justice and finds friendship and humor along the way.

Experience the deeply spiritual visionary dreams that guide Josie through her ordeal and meet the colorful tribe of friends she finds when she returns to her hometown in Montana to begin a new life with her children. There's Iggy the former pirate who lived a daring and dramatic life on his sailboat, Alice the world-weary and wise cracking middle school math teacher who grew up the daughter of an Admiral, and Francine the free-spirited fun-loving bohemian artist. You will be entertained and enlightened by this powerful, moving and profound new book!
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262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 8, 2015

About the author

Leona Silberberg graduated from the merchant marine academy and traveled the world aboard U.S. merchant ships while she was in her twenties. Eventually she settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, married and had two children. While she was embroiled in several-years-long divorce, she earned a Master’s degree from the University of Montana and lectured in Art History. She will always love Montana but she currently lives in Northern California with her family. Leona is passionate about social justice, writing, art and of course her children.

Reviews

[Sandra Lopez · Rating 3 out of 5]

“The elk was trying to tell her something. He was trying to wake her up. He was trying to help her. She’d been unconscious for too long. She had been willfully avoiding seeing what was right before her. She had refused to open her eyes and see the situation for what it was: she’d married an abuser and now she would have to risk everything she’d worked so hard for in order to protect her children and give them a happy childhood. She put her hands to her face but the tears wouldn’t come. She was the figure in the dream and she was caught on the horns of a dilemma.” (8)

Full of artistic sorrow and brevity, Every Word an Arrow is a story of one woman’s strength and courage. After years of living in the dark, Josie must tunnel out of her cave and adjust to the bright light of a promising future.

As Josie goes through the frustrating litigation and bureaucratic procedures to get a divorce and a restraining order, the reader regresses to her previous years of marriage and motherhood, leaping between past and present. Story kind of sprinted over some areas yet lagged in others. I would've liked the author to have elaborated more on certain scenes that were more stimulating, like the confrontations between Josie and Richard. Instead the focus was more on the banalities of the couple's courtship in the past and the legalities of the court in the present.

The journey was long; the writing was rudimentary. I did wonder about the title: Every Word an Arrow. What does that mean and how does it convey this story?

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story of life with unexpected display of "love" Courageous woman!