Surviving Passion

About the Book

Therese Denard manages a group of health care software designers, engineers and trainers at Carepath, a growing company which she co-founded with her friends Alan and Paul. When Therese hires Brin, a single mother and pharmacist, her world spins out of control as she and Brin fall in love and struggle to keep their love affair secret. Brin wrestles with her emerging lesbian identity and her fears of losing custody of David, her teenage son. As Carepath goes public during the early days of the Internet and begins to acquire other companies, financial pressures intensify in the emerging dot.com boom. When Therese begins to rise in the corporate hierarchy and Brin falls from grace, their relationship reaches a crisis point. Surviving Passion explores how passion transforms into comfort and knowledge in relationships or bursts into flames, smolders and dies. The novel also examines how we search for meaning and purpose in the work that we do and the cost of excessive loyalty in a corporate environment of quarterly earnings pressure, layoffs and growth for growth’s sake. Surviving Passion – Quotes for Back Cover “The title of Kathy Lewis’s new novel says it all: The heart of the matter is surviving passion: learning when to leave, when to bend, when to seek the wisdom of deep water, and how to know deep love. This novel impresses in the way it breaks new ground. Surviving Passion is a novel that looks at long-time love between women, honors the passion that fuels our work, and lets the dot.com revolution give the sexual revolution a run for its money. Kathy Lewis writes with wisdom and humor about the passions which drive complicated and fascinating lives.” - Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling “In Surviving Passion, Lewis (mostly) overcomes her Catholic good-girl heritage to give us an intense, lyrical love story interwoven with an unsentimental account of the cost of confusing a workplace with the feeling of family.” - Sharon Sheehe Stark, author of A Wrestling Season and The Dealer’s Yard

About the Author

Kathy Lewis is a writer and health care software manager. Surviving Passion is her second novel. She won the 1993 Loft-McKnight Award for Creative Prose and has published work in The Gulf War: A Broader Perspective, Outlook, Hurricane Alice and the Minnesota Women’s Press. Her first novel, The 27th Out, a baseball mystery, was published in 1996. Born and raised in the Detroit area, she was educated at the University of Michigan and Yale University. She lives in Minneapolis in a household of women and Henry, the Wheaton terrier.