[stylist] synopsis

[Judith Bron]

Yes, In the story the three lives become intertwined.
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From: "Justin H. Williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] synopsis


>I like it.  Are  you going to intwine the lives together in the story?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Judith Bron
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:59 PM
> To: Stylist
> Subject: [stylist] synopsis
>
> I thought about your collective advice and began working on a one page
> synopsis.  Does this, ignoring all the other material I've given you, sell
> the story?  Thanks for all your help, Judith
> Jennifer Rabinowitz, unconscious after being hit by a car, looks around 
> the
> strange place she ended up in.  In front of her is a corridor that seems 
> to
> be lit with flickering candles.  She hears her long deceased mother's
> ethereal voice talking to her.
>
> Jennifer, whose life is abysmal due to constant anti Semitic derisions by
> classmates, wants to stay with her mother.  But her mother tells her that
> it's not yet her time to stay.  She has to learn, "To live.  To love.  To
> hope.  To know who you are, and what you are!"  Jennifer tries to change 
> her
> mother's mind, but slams back into her body aware of intense pain.
>
> Sheila, Jennifer's foster mother, remembers the day when a mysterious
> messenger delivered the only possessions left by Jennifer's parents, a 
> book
> with an inserted paper written in foreign script.  The messenger handed
> Sheila the items telling her to present them to Jennifer on her 
> seventeenth
> birthday and left.  Sheila ran to the window to watch him drive away, but 
> no
> car appeared on the street or driveway.  She couldn't see a man walking 
> away
> from the house.
>
> On the same morning in Jenna, New York PESSI GOLDBERG confronts her very 
> ill
> mother. Content with her sequestered life Pessi's disagreements with her
> mother have defined their relationship for months.  Pessi stomps out of 
> the
> house after her mother suggests she become involved with other girls like 
> a
> belligerent child leaving her mother on the sofa in their poverty stricken
> home.
>
> That afternoon Pessi attends a lecture at her school.  Her classmate CHAVY
> LEVY approaches her at the back of the room and encourages the recluse to
> come sit with other classmates.  Chavy's sense of humor and winning
> personality helps Pessi emerge from the thick defensive walls she has
> erected around herself.
>
> On her seventeenth birthday Sheila presents Jennifer with her parents'
> possessions, but Jennifer can't read the foreign language.  She places 
> them
> in her backpack.  On many nights in darkened bedrooms she clutches these
> items asking her parents to lead her to the life they wanted for her. 
> The
> Letter
>
> is the saga of how a little thing called, "The Letter" has the power to
> influence the life of a child born long after it was written.
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