Susan DeBow

Lydia Calypso has lost a child, her husband and, her grown children fear, her life. Still living in the large Victorian home where she raised her family, one of Lydia's daughters, against Lydia's request, sends a Realtor to her house to get Lydia to sell it and move on. After showing the Realtor her house, and having a baseball mitt fall on the Realtor's head from an overstuffed closet, Lydia realizes that whether she decides to sell or not, she needs to clean her closets.

In doing so Lydia finds the secrets that have, unbeknownst to her, affected her family. She learns her marriage, family and friendships were not what she thought they were. She has a choice to make. Does she let all of this new information break her or does she use it to build her life into what she wants it to be and repair her fractured, hurting family?

Lydia's story could be any woman's story. She has wanted a strong, loving family and has done what she could to figure out what was best for everyone. But does any mother really know what is best for her children? Has she seen them only as she wants to see them or for who they really are? Now she must let go of the past and her own expectations and look honestly at a marriage and family that she never had a true vision of.

Witness Lydia as she learns that her marriage to Walter, a man she trusted and loved, was built on a one-sided truth.

Emotionally suspensful and crisp, Lydia is every woman who has watched as her family drifted into dysfunctional territory. With good humor, spunk and spirit, the Calypso family will engage and entertain, as well as make you see your own relationship with your family a bit differently.

Join Lydia, Grace, Tim, Sherry, Sugar as they navigate the waters of love, friendship, sibling rivalry and insecurities. Deep with thought and light with laughter, Lydia's Awakening is a life-affirming read.