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Proud Flesh is the story of four generations of women whose life messes define their relationships. When tightly-wound secular-progressive sex therapist Carroll Murphy boards a plane from D.C. for California in 1988 she has no idea how her life is about to change through her reluctant friendship with her seatmates, Tennessee cousins Trixie and Peggy. Inwardly shielding her personal back-story, Carroll outwardly avoids acknowledgment of her own family baggage, allowing her to be blind-sided by the less sophisticated cousins. A tale of revelation, redemption, and reconciliation, Proud Flesh resonates with almost everyone who has faced the same issues as these women. Readers will laugh, groan, cry, and cheer as the hard-to-love Carroll discovers an unlikely network of support and unconditional love that buffers her transformational journey into a late-life relationship with a most-unpredictable man an into life-affirming connections with people she has not seen for more than forty years.

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Proud Flesh is a powerful anthem to the steel-strong bonds of sisterhood. Your soul-sisters may come from a different pond, but we all swim in the same ocean. Currie Alexander Powers, author of Soul Of A Man, and the soon-to-be-released, Bricks & Bones . A good book to give a friend who needs to go into therapy but is afraid of it. This is a romp of a read that gets to the heart and the hard of women's lives: marriage, sex, babies, friends, mamas, all the lost and found, and sometimes lost, and sometimes found again, as seen through the eyes of a sex-therapist superstar who meets a stranger on a plane. And so we get that last hard and heart part-a peek at what big career means and does not mean to our heroine-and many of ourselves. Don't let the academic credentials fool you-this is a meaningful-melodrama of a page turner you can devour in a long afternoon at the beach-or on a long flight. Alice Randall, author The Wind Done Gone

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