Holy Denver: A Novel of Shame and Redemption

Holy Denver by Florence Wetzel. Thanks to the author for the gifted copy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️After working at a prestigious Manhattan publishing firm, Elizabeth now finds herself at a Colorado bookstore working minimum wage after Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Bitter from this transition, she scorns her fellow coworkers and customers as beneath her. A shocking revelation forces her to take a hard look at herself and those around her. I really liked this one because it was so real. I also really connected with the

In Florence Wetzel’s Holy Denver: A Novel of Shame and Redemption, we are introduced to Elizabeth Zwelland, a recent arrival in Colorado’s Mile High City. Zwelland is suffering from the fallout of the 2008 financial disaster. A former employee at Blue Heron, a small Manhattan Publishing firm that puts out high-quality literary fiction, Elizabeth is forced to return to Colorado, to where her father, a towering author and unbelievable blowhard from the Beat Generation, still resides. Utterly down

This is such a varied tale, but at its heart its a story about relationships and how little we truly know about those people and places around us.We follow Elizabeth, a 34 year old living in Denver following the loss of her job at a publishers in New York. She explains her life up until this point. Being surrounded by poets full of their own self-importance, dealing with her mothers alcoholism and her father's plain disinterest in anyone but himself. She grows up but manages to forge a life for