New Review - Learning to Stutter by Sherm Davis
Abandonment, illness, handicaps, and death leave indelible scars for those who seem the most vulnerable, especially adults (thirty-somethings) who have their lives ahead of them.
For Ilene Halberstam, experiencing the intense and unexpected loss of her endearing husband, Brian, sends her into a pit of grief that is almost insurmountable.
For Kenneth Kocher (“KK�), a successful computer programmer, attempts to shed the weight of insecurities anchored in stuttering which exacerbates his ability to confidently communicate and impedes his pursuit of healthy relationships.
For Donny Schwartz, a personable and talented ex-actor, walking a tightrope of a balancing act between living his own life and addressing the obligations of caring for his ill parents begins to fray some edges.
Author Sherm Davis takes the reader to ground zero of facing life through the eyes of lifelong stutterers and is able to magnify these figuratively across the inner workings of all of his characters.
He spares no detail in holding readers� hands through every breath, every pause, and every calculated syllable a fearful speaker must understand and practice.
The reader can feel each painstaking word and inwardly applauds each uttered sentence of his characters.
The writer takes the same care in developing even minor characters with their fragile reactions to their evolving worlds and gives equal billing to them.
An elderly grandmother, Lottie Kocher, contends with life and death in a nursing home; a divorced older woman left to raise three children, Janet Halberstam moves on with her life after her husband cheats on her; a frustrated husband and father, Jonathan Kocher, desperately trying to save his marriage and do right by his son, seeks dramatic change in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Learning to Shutter captures the isolation of the human heart in its darkest spaces and reveals that it is the most universal fears and inadequacies that bring people together.
Davis threads some of life’s most challenging emotions through a host of characters and exposes a rich yet raw realism to what all humans face on many levels: loneliness, insecurity, and isolation.
A touching self-journey, “learning to stutter� translates to facing your fears head-on before moving forward on varied roads to recovery, compassion, and love.
For Ilene Halberstam, experiencing the intense and unexpected loss of her endearing husband, Brian, sends her into a pit of grief that is almost insurmountable.
For Kenneth Kocher (“KK�), a successful computer programmer, attempts to shed the weight of insecurities anchored in stuttering which exacerbates his ability to confidently communicate and impedes his pursuit of healthy relationships.
For Donny Schwartz, a personable and talented ex-actor, walking a tightrope of a balancing act between living his own life and addressing the obligations of caring for his ill parents begins to fray some edges.
Author Sherm Davis takes the reader to ground zero of facing life through the eyes of lifelong stutterers and is able to magnify these figuratively across the inner workings of all of his characters.
He spares no detail in holding readers� hands through every breath, every pause, and every calculated syllable a fearful speaker must understand and practice.
The reader can feel each painstaking word and inwardly applauds each uttered sentence of his characters.
The writer takes the same care in developing even minor characters with their fragile reactions to their evolving worlds and gives equal billing to them.
An elderly grandmother, Lottie Kocher, contends with life and death in a nursing home; a divorced older woman left to raise three children, Janet Halberstam moves on with her life after her husband cheats on her; a frustrated husband and father, Jonathan Kocher, desperately trying to save his marriage and do right by his son, seeks dramatic change in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Learning to Shutter captures the isolation of the human heart in its darkest spaces and reveals that it is the most universal fears and inadequacies that bring people together.
Davis threads some of life’s most challenging emotions through a host of characters and exposes a rich yet raw realism to what all humans face on many levels: loneliness, insecurity, and isolation.
A touching self-journey, “learning to stutter� translates to facing your fears head-on before moving forward on varied roads to recovery, compassion, and love.
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