Title: Changing Spaces
Author: Nancy King
Genre: Women's Fiction
Price: Paperback $15.95
New Mexico author Nancy King will be in Las Vegas on
Saturday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. at Tome on the Range to sign and talk about her new
book “Changing Spaces,” a novel set in Santa Fe.
“Changing Spaces” follows Laura Feldman, a woman whose
placid life goes from predictable to upheaval when her nice safe marriage to
handsome and successful Zack, falls apart before her eyes. The most outrageous
aspect of this book, and perhaps one of the telling characteristics of Zack, is
his mistaken belief that she should be willing to reasonably discuss their
separation, after all he is going to make sure she is provided for. The man
just doesn’t get it that Laura has for years played his game, and buried her
personality under his expectations.
Laura, after 40 years of trying to be that wife Zack has
shaped her to be, finds herself making decisions and choices without
consideration of his wants, wishes and desires. It is freeing and frightening
for Laura.
On a trip to Albuquerque to attend a symposium, she
discovers she is indeed still attractive to men, but also realizes the last
thing she wants is to have a one-night stand. She doesn’t exactly run away to
Santa Fe so much as drifts into a new life because she’s pretty much shed of
the old one. Along the way she trades her sedate and conservative nature and
clothing for a new and more flamboyant persona. Encouraged by Santa Fe women
she encounters who are independent free thinkers, she begins to rediscover her
true nature, hidden for years under the guise of pleasant propriety.
“Changing Spaces” tells a story of the ways subtle abuse
occurs in what may on the surface appear to be a perfect marriage. To Zack’s
way of thinking he is a loving husband. He doesn’t recognize his manipulative
and controlling actions, which have over time eroded Laura’s confidence. When
she does disappear he begins to question everything about his own life.
In the women who come to Laura's aide, King has created refreshing and diverse characters who feel
familiar, because they are. You can see them as business owners, healers,
poets, artists and creative spirits on any day in Santa Fe.
King has written several other novels and nonfiction books. She is a prolific writer who also weaves and finds inspiration hiking in the mountains. She is also a contributing writer at Your Life is a Trip. King makes her home in Santa Fe.
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