Waiting for the Daffodils

By M.C. Brown

WAITING FOR THE DAFFODILS is a memoir detailing a tragic loss that changes the course of the author's life as well as her immediate family. Each member suffers in his or her own way and struggles to deal with their loss. Two years later, the oldest grandchild is involved in an auto accident that ends up in court with a trial by jury to decide the young woman's fate. Following the trial, the grandfather suffers a heart attack. While inserting a stent the doctor discovers a large mass in the man's chest. With the author's husband given less than two years to live, the already fractured family struggles to make the best of the time he has left. Caring for her husband, a functional yet verbally abusive alcoholic, known only by their closest and dearest friends, makes the author's task more difficult. Days after his death, drama unfolds and takes her several months to sort out. Over the course of this four-year tribulation, the author becomes fixated on the daffodils she had planted in her backyard. To her dismay, only a solitary daffodil blooms each year. Later, she learns that a single bloom foretells misfortune. Besieged with guilt, she still hangs on to the hope associated with the hardy annual flower that pushes it way through the frozen earth after a long winter, not unlike how she herself must do. Looking forward to better days, the author continues to seek out those elusive daffodils that once flourished in her youth. ************Daffodils, one of the first flowers of spring, symbolize rebirth and new beginnings. It is also a symbol of hope because of its reputation as a hardy annual flower, pushing its way through the frozen earth after a long winter to herald the return of spring, new life, vitality, and growth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530934869
• ISBN13: 9781530934867
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.7" x 5.1"