Today we have a book recommendation that is full of emotions, a touching journey of reality with a strong message for readers: Waiting by Erika Vanzin
Tittle: Waiting
Series: London Series #1.5
Author: Erika Vanzin
Release Date: December 15th, 2016
Synopsis
Alex is a debuting musician and dreams to become a rockstar. Emily is a homeless that lives on London's streets. Alex is an alcohol and sex addict. Emily is a drug addict that can't get rid of Oxicondon. The two of them live so different lives that they seem to come from different planets; the only thing that they have in common is the square where they first met in a cold night in London.
In the beginning Emily doesn't want to have Alex around. She finds him irritating and she is very distrustful; the boy, on the other hand, is almost obsessed trying to help her and he trusts her completely. Alex needs all his patience and stubbornness to convince her to trust him because living on the streets made her suspicious.
Alex shifts between night where he is drunk and days where he tries to help Emily. His behavior jeopardizes his relationship with his bandmates and friends. They are excited because they are negotiating a management deal but their success is related to Alex capacity to write two new songs, something that Alex can't do because of his writer's block.
Alex needs a harsh wake up call to rouse from the numbness that is deep in him since he left his family. He will be forced to deal with his past, his demons and the emotions that he buried under loads of alcohol. He will have to face the reality and grow up, putting aside his painful past and helping someone that needs him the most, Emily.
He is ripped apart between his friends that need those lyrics and Emily that need his help. He finds himself in the position he has to choose and everything seems painful and wrong. In the end, those choices make him understand what is really important to him and everything starts to fall in the right place.
Waiting is a story about pain, self-destruction and rebirth that link two persons apparently frail and different that can find a way, together, to save themselves.
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About the Author
At the age of eight Erika asked to Santa Claus a typewriter. That was the moment when her surprised parents realized she was not like the other children of her age. Anyway, that Christmas she got a heavy, professional, brand new “Olivetti Lettera 35”. It was love at first sight. She started immediately to type few words and soon she ended her first short story. As time passed she bought a more efficient computer for her script but that typewriter have always had a special spot in her heart: it was her first love.
Erika was born to Matteo Vanzin, a construction worker, and Nadia Vanzin, a secretary, on 6 December 1979 in Valdobbiadene, Treviso, a small town at the base of the Alps. Both her parents were born and raised in the same neighborhood where they currently live. She lived with them until the age of eighteen when she moved to Padua to attend University. After graduation she didn't come back to Valdobbiadene and followed her heart travelling the world, living in Los Angeles, Vancouver and London and visiting part of the North America and Europe.
Erika's brother Nicola was born when she was five years old. Few months prior to Nicola’s birth she begun first grade at Nicolò Bocassino's Primary School. Erika’s true passion for writing bloomed with the influence of her very first teacher in Primary School, who encouraged her creativity and fed her love for books and study like no one else.
As a teenager Erika always felt different, left out, unsuitable to the world she lived in, so she sought refuge in her journal, books and music. The two novels that helped her to survive through those years where “Never fade away: The Kurt Cobain Story” by Dave Thompson and “Jack Frusciante has left the band: a love story - with rock 'n' roll” by Enrico Brizzi, two different novels that share the same discomfort that only a teenager can relate with. She finally found her place in the world at the age of thirty when she started writing novels.
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