Review: Compelling Story About Compulsion
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
Jessie sometimes gets lost in the words she is writing.  She becomes obsessed with telling the story to the point neglecting her life.However, Jessie also entertains students from the near-by college for readings of her works.  Something as minor as a student asking for a scene from a book about her own culture (Japanese), and Jessie selecting a scene involving Kinbaku (Japanese erotic bondage [...] ) has ramifications which change Jessie's life.  The students who hear the scene ask for a demonstration.  Then they become enamored. Then one of them asks for regular lessons.  Suddenly Jessie is a social person who is seeing several students several times a week.  They become friends.  They ask for advise and counsel.  When she gets lost in the words, they feed her, feed her dogs, clean her house, buy her groceries, whatever it takes to care for her.And then one day, one of them introduces Jessie to someone who is much closer to Jessie's own age...There are no little red-headed werefoxes in this book.  That it the only thing disappointing about it.  Otherwise it is a powerful and dramatic story.