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Living Crazy Like Fly

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In her book, Living Crazy Like Fly, author Caryn Suarez invites her readers to travel with her on a journey from the depths of depression to the euphoria of joy, and back again. Author Suarez's has done an able job as she writes of a young woman's daily trek from hell to heaven, from home to school.

It takes courage for one to write of something so personal, so tragic. And yet Ms. Suarez has provided us an opportunity to explore, with her, the dark corners of that young woman's life and to see the skeletons in the closets of the place she called home for so many painful years.

To you readers:I hope you plan on giving Ms. Suarez a chance to share with you the heart felt story of one woman's tragedy and triumph, of her heartbreak and joy, by buying a copy of this remarkable book.

To Ms. Suarez: I hope you plan on sharing with us, in writing, more of your thoughts and stories.

I found Caryn Suarez' story captivating, a good read, and something I couldn't put down once I started reading. How easily we picture our friends and neighbors as 'typical,' and yet does anyone ever know what really goes on behind closed doors ? A book I recommend to anyone who wants to read about the hidden truths in small town USA.

Imagine going home from school, walking in your door and fearing for your life. Now, do that everday for about 15 years. Picture yourself walking into a room and looking down the barrel of a large caliber gun held by your father. The man who is supposed to protect his family and children, instead he is beating them until they can hardly move. This happened in my small town. It was in her household that this story takes place. Her home was her private hell. It was a place that was perfect; an "all American household" on the outside, but to the people who lived in the house it was the worst place on earth. However, her life was not totally miserable. The book tells of her high school activities, her friends and "ze Country Club". This was a club that she and her friends formed and it became a club much loved by most of the students. It was special because the leaders did not limit entrance by social status, money or age: they let you be a part of their lives if you were a good person and fun to be with. In my honest opinion, this book was the most depressing, happy, funny, disturbing and most heartfelt book that I have ever read. "Living Crazy Like Fly" is a book that EVERYBODY should read. It gives you strength to endure bad things; and it makes good things much better. It brings reality to life and makes the human heart a little bit kinder.

After reading the book I realized that I was not alone. I think there are many others out there from the '70's who were in the same boat and did not have anyone to talk to about the abuse they were suffering at home. Like the author, we went to school to escape home life. I think it is a great book and that everyone should read this true to life story of survival. It lets you know there is still a chance for all of us to land on our feet.

Caryn has wrote a great but sometimes sad, sometimes happy book about growing up in the 70's. Though I am a personal friend of the author, I believe the reader will throughly enjoy this book and be able to relate to it from their own growing pains. We had lots of fun in that era and hope you will join the adventure. Just watch out for the holes in the ground :-)

Caryn Suarez writes the most powerful, disturbing and emotional book that I've ever read. This is a "must read" book and one that you will not put down until it's finished. The author tells her life story of growing up in small town Warsaw, Indiana and what it was like for her living in abusive, terror-filled surroundings. Since the book takes us from early childhood through high school graduation, I found myself wondering where life has taken the author since college years. I know you will join me in hoping there will be a sequel to this most powerful book!

I enjoyed reading Living Crazy Like Fly by Caryn Suarez. I feel however that she has a much greater story to tell. She lost sight of the purpose of her book and skimmed over her life with little detail of the horrors that shaped her and her siblings lifes. She had the opportunity to give a moving account of what it is like to grow up an abused child and focused instead on relationships that are like every other high school across the United States. In the chapter "Leaving For Indy" she states she wanted to put her story out there in the hopes of helping others that lived through a similiar home life but she lost sight of that fact in her account of her life. The book lacked the writing style that drew you in and got the reader totally involved in what was happening to her. In reading this book I felt as though I was being given the account that would be given to a stranger instead of being given the account that would move me to tears for her plight in life. I finished the book out of shear curiousity...would I recognize any of the people she was talking about. We all feel the things she felt about her high school experience and the clicks that are formed, that is just the nature of growing up and living life. She had the opportunity to write a moving story and somehow got lost along the way...perhaps she is still afraid. I also thought the book should have been proof read a bit better, there were several gramatical errors as well as spelling errors.

"Living Crazy Like Fly" opens many closet doors. Although the things that come out may not all be pleasent, they do hit home. Your heart goes out to the author, who lived through these times and still perservered. This book draws you from one chapter to the next.Easy to read, but hard to put down. Highly recommended for anyone who really wants to know "the way it was"!