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SHEgo
We are all living separate experiences, yet many of us are feeling the exact same pain– that pain is the dissonance between who we really are and how we behave; and even believe ourselves to be. What if we were to discover that there is a loop out of that pain?
SHEgo is not only the story of one woman’s pain struggle with abounding illusions, but it is about everyone’s struggle toward peace and self-actualization. The protagonist is a woman who transcends race and gender, compelling any reader who has experienced pain about the past, anxiety about the future, or confusion about the present to identify with her.
SHEgo is a quintessential post modern novel about a woman obsessed with success at any cost. Throughout the novel, the female protagonist cannot see the self in the present, since all of her decisions are based on the past and the future. Each chapter tells a tale from the perspective of multiple characters in the novel, to piece together a climactic ending that no reader will soon forget.
SHEgo- where human drive meets itself!
SHEgo is not only the story of one woman’s pain struggle with abounding illusions, but it is about everyone’s struggle toward peace and self-actualization. The protagonist is a woman who transcends race and gender, compelling any reader who has experienced pain about the past, anxiety about the future, or confusion about the present to identify with her.
SHEgo is a quintessential post modern novel about a woman obsessed with success at any cost. Throughout the novel, the female protagonist cannot see the self in the present, since all of her decisions are based on the past and the future. Each chapter tells a tale from the perspective of multiple characters in the novel, to piece together a climactic ending that no reader will soon forget.
SHEgo- where human drive meets itself!
- GenresFiction
209 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 30, 2010
90 people want to read
About the author
Tania Zaverta Chance
1 book44 followersDr. Tania Z. Chance is a native New Yorker who currently resides in America’s heartland. She holds a doctor of philosophy in education and is an accomplished professional in her field. As a child, Tania was always a quiet observer of people. In her young adulthood, she fell in love with existential literature and foreign authors who offer diverse perspectives on life. As an author, she wants her readers to be able to feel her words and hopes that they derive personal meaning from her work. Her favorite past times are reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
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October 3, 2010
I am torn about rating or reviewing this book, because it is so unusual, or perhaps just so different from the kind of books I normally read and enjoy. What’s good about it is brilliant: the voice, the rhythm, the pacing, the subtle way it takes the reader on a trip. What were, for me, weaknesses were the oddities of style and plot that make it less generally approachable. I can’t just hand it someone and say, read this, it’s great. I can only really recommend it to people who like something that breaks a lot of rules.
October 1, 2010
Well, I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads, and I started reading it...and I really don't know where to go from there...
It ended up being a pretty good book, but it took me over a week to get through the first 60 pages, which is not a good sign when when the entire book is only 200 pages. It did pick up speed around page 100, but when a novel is that short, it needs to become interesting quicker. Most people I know would have given up on it.
Before I really got into the story, my main objection to the book was that I felt I was reading something written by one of the women from the "Real Housewives" television series. This woman appeared to do nothing all day, except yoga--she could not miss her yoga--and complain about life and how it wasn't fair, all the while making it obvious that she financially, she lived quite comfortably. What made me change my opinion was that the book finally picked and and started going somewhere. The protagonist finally started to tell some of her story and round herself out as a character.
Transitions within the story were rough and border-line jolting. A few times in the book, the point of view would shift from that of the protagonist to her mother, her husband, or her daughter, but there was little distinction between what the protagonist had just been thinking to what the new narrator was thinking. I can see some readers having problems with that. The story also does not always smoothly transition from the protagonists current life to her memories or to what she is writing. I suppose all of that is the point of the book; that it's supposed to be stream-of-consciousness, but I've never been a fan of that style.
I grew frustrated at the protagonists in her inability to see the parallels between her mother and herself. She hates her mother for never being around and for not loving her. She resents the way her mother kept her away from her grandmother. In the brief segment told from her mother's point of view, we see that the mother feels she gives her daughter everything she could ever want--freedom. She doesn't spend time around her because she doesn't want her daughter to feel smothered or to become like her. She realizes how smart her daughter is and hopes that she will go to college and get a job making good money, and that she will be able to release them from their current situation. The protagonist distances herself from her daughter, because she has been burned too many times by love and she is afraid of the love that she feels for her daughter. She gives her daughter absolutely everything (or so she feels) and grows angry at her daughter's ingratitude. And lastly, she keeps her daughter from knowing her grandmother. (This may be confusing, but it's not my fault--none of the characters have names.)
The end confused me...which version was really reality and which the dream?
It ended up being a pretty good book, but it took me over a week to get through the first 60 pages, which is not a good sign when when the entire book is only 200 pages. It did pick up speed around page 100, but when a novel is that short, it needs to become interesting quicker. Most people I know would have given up on it.
Before I really got into the story, my main objection to the book was that I felt I was reading something written by one of the women from the "Real Housewives" television series. This woman appeared to do nothing all day, except yoga--she could not miss her yoga--and complain about life and how it wasn't fair, all the while making it obvious that she financially, she lived quite comfortably. What made me change my opinion was that the book finally picked and and started going somewhere. The protagonist finally started to tell some of her story and round herself out as a character.
Transitions within the story were rough and border-line jolting. A few times in the book, the point of view would shift from that of the protagonist to her mother, her husband, or her daughter, but there was little distinction between what the protagonist had just been thinking to what the new narrator was thinking. I can see some readers having problems with that. The story also does not always smoothly transition from the protagonists current life to her memories or to what she is writing. I suppose all of that is the point of the book; that it's supposed to be stream-of-consciousness, but I've never been a fan of that style.
I grew frustrated at the protagonists in her inability to see the parallels between her mother and herself. She hates her mother for never being around and for not loving her. She resents the way her mother kept her away from her grandmother. In the brief segment told from her mother's point of view, we see that the mother feels she gives her daughter everything she could ever want--freedom. She doesn't spend time around her because she doesn't want her daughter to feel smothered or to become like her. She realizes how smart her daughter is and hopes that she will go to college and get a job making good money, and that she will be able to release them from their current situation. The protagonist distances herself from her daughter, because she has been burned too many times by love and she is afraid of the love that she feels for her daughter. She gives her daughter absolutely everything (or so she feels) and grows angry at her daughter's ingratitude. And lastly, she keeps her daughter from knowing her grandmother. (This may be confusing, but it's not my fault--none of the characters have names.)
The end confused me...which version was really reality and which the dream?
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August 22, 2010
Reading this book for me was like being inside the mind of an alien! Her life is so far removed from anything in my life experience. Growing up in a small, religous, California rural town, to now living in a small, poor, desert California town. Having been very happily married at 17 and a widow at 35, but never since then feeling I HAD to have a man in my life. It was an absolutlely facinating look at a foreign world.
October 5, 2010
Shego is cleverly written. It takes the reader through the narrator's life from the perspective of several different characters. The narrator spends much of her life hiding who she really is. Knowing what she has had to face, helps readers to have compassion for her. Shego is a great read that I highly recommend.
July 24, 2010
This has been a long time coming...I have to give myself a 5! I'd love to see what others think and how they'll rate it. I invite you to please read my book- June 30 2010 publication date. To order:
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June 24, 2015
I gave it 5 stars but I haven't read it all yet. just the preview I have a serious interest in this book though since the story hits so close to home.
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