BOOK SYNOPSIS
Will Sam purge his guilty conscience before it's too late? Will he atone for his offenses and find solace in the final countdown?
Sam Fox spent his whole life running against the hands of time. He is now racing to set the record straight about secrets he and Hannah, his wife of 65 years, have been harboring from their children and each other.
Hands of Gold, loosely based on real events, follows Sam on a journey that takes him from war-torn Europe at the turn of the 20th century, through the Great Depression and labor union reforms in America. Determined to make a lasting mark in his new homeland, Sam faces many hardships, not he least of which includes contracting tuberculosis, but he refuses to let this deter him from his ambitions. During a seemingly mundane workday, he shields 200 coworkers from a disgruntled gun-wielding employee. His actions saved the lives of many, making his escape from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp - wherein his family suffered a deadly fate - a destined event.
As Sam comes to grips with his past, a gold watch from his grandmother, lost and buried during the Holocaust, will find its way back to him. Through this and other blessings, Sam learns to find the silver lining in his everyday struggles by holding onto his loved ones, along with a little self-reliance and even a few miracles
.jpg)
Philadelphia
1 THE LOOSE ENDS DECEMBER 1990
Where are all your great miracles now? Couldn’t ya spare just one more? Would it be too much to ask? Really, would it kill ya? Okay, maybe not that last part, considering to whom I’m speaking and the predicament I’m in. The chutzpah, I know! Ackh! It is too late for courtesy with the Almighty, and I am too old and frustrated to pretend to care about the consequence.
My words and thoughts are unraveling before me as I sandwich Hannah’s weathered hand between my own. She is a sliver of her once meaty frame. I alternatingly stroke and press her hand to my face and lips. This weak hand that once provided me strength, when the tables were turned, is now just a network of blue veins bulging from tissue paper skin. It is still the hand of a mother who might have used it to stroke the heads of our children or bake some sort of sweet chazerei for them. Oh, how I missed our one son in particular, the one who didn’t live long enough to watch his own children become adults. No longer the caretaker, Hannah is at the mercy of time and circumstance, here, in the care of others.
The single fluorescent lamp above her bed forces our ghostly shadows to the wall behind her, and a machine resembling an accordion expands and deates with Hannah’s every strained wheeze. Along with this flopping sound, I listen to the music of the room hum around me. The faint buzz from the light and heater. The incessant bleep of the monitors, blinking on and o. The churning of leaves and other debris as arctic gusts of a Philly winter raged outside the window.
But here we are. Hannah is an electronic device receiving pulsating currents. Her power source: plastic tubes carrying clear fluids, medicine and nourishment, delaying the inevitable. And I refuse to accept it.
It was at this visit that she gasped out those prophetic words to me. ‘Meet me in heaven.’ She squeezed my hand, struggling to relay sensible thoughts. ‘Tie up loose ends.’ Another few strained breaths as I warn her to rest. Stubbornly defiant, she persists. ‘Say goodbye to our family, and then meet me in heaven.’ After 65 years of marriage, you do as you’re told if you know what’s good for you.
AUTHOR INFO
Hands of Gold capitalizes on award-winning author Roni Robbins’ 35 years as a published writer. Currently an editor/writer for Medscape/WebMD after serving as associate editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times/The Times of Israel, she has a seasoned history as a staff reporter for daily and weekly newspapers and as a freelancer for national, regional and online publications.
Robbins’ freelance articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, Forbes, the New York Daily News, Adweek, WebMD and Healthline. She wrote for the Mother Nature Network; The Forward; FromTheGrapevine; and Hadassah magazine, among others. Robbins was also a staff writer for Florida Today/USA Today, The Birmingham News and the Atlanta Business Chronicle/American City Business Journals.
In addition to major CEOs and politicians, she has interviewed such celebrities as Wolf Blitzer, Andy Gibb, Hank Aaron and Usher.
In 2009, Hands of Gold was a quarterfinalist for historical fiction in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Robbins also won three Simon Rockower Awards for Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association, including an investigative piece about Jewish seniors who feel “Out of Touch” in nursing homes. Other prestigious news-writing awards come from The State Bar of Georgia, the Alabama Associated Press and the South Carolina Press Association.
Hands of Gold is her first novel.
For more on Robbins and her writing career, visit www.ronirobbins.com.
Publisher : Amsterdam Publishers (4 Feb. 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 258 pages
ISBN-10 : 9493231852
ISBN-13 : 978-9493231856
PURCHASE LINK.....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hands-Gold-Silver-Misfortune-Fiction-ebook/dp/B09MHR5RS3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YJEJRNK03YE4&keywords=Hands+of+gold&qid=1644323099&s=books&sprefix=hands+of+gold%2Cstripbooks%2C367&sr=1-1
PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT THE POSTS OF THE OTHER BLOGGERS WHO HAVE STOPS ON THIS BLOG TOUR
Thanks for the blog tour support x
ReplyDelete