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Raisin’ Brains is the first book in a series of three that I wrote for Great Potential Press, Inc. In this book I approach gifted children from a mother’s point of view--and I approach a gifted mother, my own, from a tormented daughter’s point of view. Somehow, I ended up being the only normal family member in two generations of quirkiness. Please don’t ask my family to verify this, especially my children.
You’ll meet my mom, Myrna, who danced around our livingroom in bubblegum-pink tights--with the curtains open, for Pete’s sake, and who served pea bread to company. Yes, you heard that right. Pea bread. Do not try that at home.
I’ll introduce you to my oldest son Stanley, a teenager at the time, who taught himself to read at the ripe old age of two and who, by the time he was thirteen, was willing to sacrifice every brain cell he had to become a rock star. Youll learn about Otto, whose grand ambition was to grow up and marry a woman who had a job. And then there’s Magnolia, who, at the age of three, swore she had lived a previous life with The Rabbit Family, which from her description was clearly a hundred times better than her real parents were. Then we have Pandora, a five-year-old obsessed with death, and Rupert, the youngest, who gets much more attention in Life in the Fast Brain.
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