It
is my pleasure to introduce to you a new author by the name of Gloria
Lee. She is a woman of survival, determination, and indomitable strength.
Her entire life has been dedicated to overcoming obstacles and
winning. She has survived a heart operation and breast cancer,
weathering several surgeries over a scant few years. She believes in
mastering her circumstances. Her mother taught her losing was not
an option. A person is to work at a problem until that problem is
overcome or death arrives. She is a woman who comes from a humble
childhood and obtained her first job at the age of 7. She earned her
first dollar walking the streets with her grand aunt pushing a cart collecting
scrap metal and cardboard. Her second after school jobs were
sweeping and cleaning a barber shop and a pool hall. The young Gloria
began a life long love affair with literature at an early age that has
manifested into the book you now hold in your hand.
In 1963, Gloria enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. In 1976 she was an aid
worker with the International Red Cross. Working in Malaysia and
Indonesia, she helped rescue ethnic Chinese refugees arriving in boats from
Vietnam. Imagine being on a small boat rescuing people and you
cannot swim. When she returned home she donated her time to tutoring
young children in both math and reading. Gloria knows the ups and downs
of life. She has gone from being an owner of a successful business to
living a year with her young son in her car. Her vast experience as an aid
worker, soldier, an administrator, and a homeless person prepared her as a
writer. You will truly enjoy her method of introducing subjects such as
prostitution, religion, murder, adultery, and incest. Her books are
filled with so much information you will want to reread her books just to make
certain you did not miss anything. She deliberately
introduces information to help save lives.
Her passion for writing, reading, and most of all, justice for the weakest in
our society, shines through in her work. My personal favorite has yet to
be released. That would be the series “Do This In Remembrance of
Me.” These eight volumes discuss the murders of over 20,000 American
women. Through her research, Gloria has dissected how violence plagues
our society, and what everyone can do to empower themselves. You may find
her work chilling and you may be surprised, but what makes Gloria Lee’s writing
so endearing is she is speaking from a place of authenticity that few writers
can claim. This is why I find I can seldom put her books down.
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