Coming Back Up - Hardcover

COMING BACK UP SUZANNE LIPSETT Bright, lively, sexually sophisticated, Lonnie has hit her stride at thirty-eight. She s single and loves it, a successful commercial artist in San Francisco with her life completely under control. Suddenly without warning she becomes the target of a random sexual attack, and in one hour her carefully constructed life has been shattered. Coming Back Up follows Lonnie s recovery in the year after her rape. She realizes, as she enters a promising love affair, that the intruders have not only violated her body, they have stolen her ability to receive human love as well. Equally disturbing is the decision she must reach regarding the baby growing inside of her. Lonnie considers each of her options - abortion, adoption, single motherhood - with a direction that illumines the subtlety of each. She confronts universal questions: What are life and love without self-acceptance? What are life and work without love? What is love without sexuality? Watching Lonnie heal and grow, we finally end on a note of renewal. This is a novel to remember - as touching as it is topical. Jacket design: Barbara Walton