Hyacinths

About the Book

About the Author

Zerrha was born in historical Parette’s Clinic in Graham County, North Carolina amid Appalachian splendor, into a loving family with her remarkable chronicle waiting to unfold. The powerful story of this woman’s life, love and struggles are journaled in her poignant manuscript, Hyacinths. Captivating and somehow fundamentally relevant to everyone’s tale of life, Hyacinths weaves a poetic account of Zerrha’s life’s lessons and family - leaving no spiritual stone unturned. Born Linda Phillips, a grade school honor student worshipped by a doting father, a frail child cared for by an adoring sister, Brenda/Beansoop, a young adolescent pedestaled and protected by her older brother Max and a child who loses her mother, an ethereal beauty, to sickness and regains her presence as a woman, takes you with her on her extraordinary journey. Brenda took her mother’s place and made her the woman she was to become, Zerrha. She is a flashing ray of light in any company, innocent, with an absolute absence of malice. Her life’s story shows a beautiful girl swept up by life’s current, drifting in an ocean full of discovery, tossed among rocky shores, whisked away by tumultuous waves and finally sailing into her own sea of grandchildren, now in control (for the most part) of at least her destination, if not the anecdotal happenings along the way. She has found the storybook love of her life and is currently basking in the security of his perennial love. It is from this shelter, and unwavering belief in God, that she is enabled to share her saga.