Wow! Just, Wow! I am so grateful for the loving community of supporters that we have, and this is just the latest example. Chyrel Jackson has written an amazing review, and there are several more on Amazon’s review page for “One Petal At A Time.” Here’s the full review:
Our Generation’s Harper Lee!!!One Petal at a Time is more than a 114 Page Turner. It made you go back and read it again twice before advancing to the next page.
Joni Karen Caggiano is brilliant. It’s not every day we’re lucky enough to experience this depth, breadth, range, and scope of talent and capability.
This book has it all. Emotion, sentimentality, despair, rage, hope, resilience and triumph.
Themes within the prose and poetry, neglect, heartbreak, abuse, betrayal, food insecurity, love, loss, grief, expectation, faith, redemption, forgiveness and restoration.
Dare we talk about the details… The description of nature is extraordinary hence my Harper Lee reference. The detail of abuse is electrifying.
So staggering by way of detail
the reader must allow themselves a moment
to gather their composure to continue reading. This happened to me personally several times.Each poem was beautifully written. Each story, the prose was beyond exceptional.
Stand out poems: Noisy Thoughts in the Night, Cleansing, Lonely Employment, Silent Cry, Memories, Sadness Moans, Waiting Still, Dinner Time, Imagination, Counting Clouds, Love Can Be Painful, Gifts of Winter, Silence, God’s Grace, Lost Season, Sundry Cages, Nature Brings Wedding Gifts, I Am, Green Eyes, Kindness, Untethered, and You Were the Best of Us.
Caggiano was at her best when detailing Nature’s many wondrous miracles.
Award winning Literary Non-fiction prose!!!
This book provides healing in it’s pages.
5-Stars and counting. I see a movie in this writer’s future. I see it. Nothing written for me will ever be this life changing or impressive.
Have your Kleenex handy your going to need them.
Caggiano rips your heart right from the center of your soul.
Harper Lee was once asked many years after writing To Kill a Mockingbird, why she hadn’t written anything else? Her answer, I had nothing further to say. Harper’s realization that in that moment she had begun conversations about race, inequality, Injustice, and White fear were all truthfully written. There was nothing more that could be given to those topics.
Caggiano details addiction, poverty, and abuse just as Lee had. There’s simply nothing more that can be said. You have to allow some conversations to first breathe.
I love this writer I hope some brave creative completes a film adaptation of this book.
Being compared to Harper Lee?! I’m beyond flattered! See this review and others in the Amazon link below.
