Summary: The New York Times once called Susan Torres “Single Mother, Creator of Miracles.” Susan’s story begins in Brooklyn, where she was raised in the ’60s in a drug infested, abusive home. She left home as a teenager, and soon was a mother herself. Against the odds, Susan extricated her young family from another drug-shadowed environment and a subsequent abusive relationship by dint of raw courage and determination. Her new memoir “Living on Three Spoons” chronicles the lessons she learned and applied to inspire her life and help her own four children to “fight back” against oppressive forces in life. More below the media player. Listen to Susan Torres Download audio file (susantorres.mp3) The Indie Author Life The New York Times article that inspired Susan Torres to write this autobiography is, indeed, called “Single Mother, Creator of Miracles,” and describes her in glowing terms: She is relentlessly bubbly, constantly chatting up strangers. She once fixed up her second daughter, Jessica, 23, with a plumber, thinking that besides being cute, he might repair the air-conditioning. Sadly, it did not last. “Too bad,” Ms. Torres says. “He said he’d give us a good price.” Instead, she bought a window air-conditioner for Nissim’s room, [...] The post The Unique Courage of One Mother appeared first on The Bookcast.
