A Final Gift in the Dark

“Warm blood slowly trickled down her face--a caress that was oddly comforting. Perhaps because it was the only gentle touch she would feel before she died."

When Alice Walker’s life is violently interrupted, she has only her memories to comfort her, to surround her in the darkest hours.
Finding herself adrift--isolated from community, from the people she used to know and love--Alice is haunted by loss, becomes acquainted with the long night of mourning and struggles to emerge into the dawn of a new life.
In her isolated hell she learns that endings are beginnings and that the beautiful moments are often disguised as ordinary; in a moment of awakening, she recognizes the precious beauty of her imperfect life and the strength of the love of imperfect people, in all of its forms: friendship and family, romance and passion, and love for the woman she fought so hard to become.

A FINAL GIFT IN THE DARK is a tale filled with nostalgia, the power of female friendship, humor, hope, the realization of abiding love, and the light that is found even in the darkest moments of life.