Books*Reviews*Etc: BOOK TOUR: First Love

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

YOU RE-CONNECTED

WITH YOUR FIRST LOVE?

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Pump Up Your Book

is pleased

to bring you

SAVE THE LAST DANCE

virtual book tour

September 5 – November 30!

SAVE THE LAST DANCE

A Novel

Eric Joseph

Eva Ungar Grudin

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Publisher: Hargrove Press
Pages: 360
Genre: Literary Fiction

A tale of the power and peril of first love rediscovered.
Adam Wolf and Sarah Ross were teenage sweethearts who grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in the late 50’s and early 60′s. They set a wedding date when they turned fifteen. The day came and went. For most of their lives the two were out of contact.
With their 50th high school reunion approaching, Adam and Sarah reconnect. Email exchanges – after the first tentative “hi”, then a deluge- five, ten- by the end of the week twenty emails a day. Soon Sarah admits, “All my life I’ve been looking for someone who loves me as much as you did”.
Written entirely in email and texts, Save the Last Dance allows the reader to eavesdrop on Sarah and Adam’s correspondence as their love reignites. It also permits the reader to witness the reactions of significant others, whose hum-drum lives are abruptly jolted by the sudden intrusion of long-dormant passion. Can Sarah and Adam’s rekindled love withstand the pummeling they’re in for?

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Meet the Authors

Eric Joseph and Eva Ungar (Grudin) were teenage sweethearts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who set a wedding date when they turned 15. The last time they saw each other they were 21 years old. Three years ago they reunited, around the time of the 50th high school reunion. Although their book is a work of fiction, it’s about a couple like them, who fall in love again, almost instantly, via email.
Eric is in public health, a consultant/educator at hospitals and clinics, concentrating his career on Native American health services across the country. Eva is an art historian who taught at Williams College in Massachusetts for 40+ years. She specialized in African and African-American art; the history of European painting: also Holocaust Studies – memorials and museums; In addition, she has performed in and written Sounding to A, a multi-media work about inheriting the Holocaust. It premiered at the Ko Festival of Performance in 2004.
Learn more about Eva and Eric and their history together by visiting hargrovepress.com – At the website you’ll find memories about their time together in the late 50s, early 60s, as well as interviews from today.
Their latest book is the literary fiction, Save The Last Dance.

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MY THOUGHTS

What if you could take a private inside look into emails from the day to day lives, ordinary lives, that a long lost love has re-entered their lives. Wow! How would you re-act if this happened to you? Remember when you were a teen ager and had that one certain someone who you just couldn't let go? Sweethearts forever, or so you thought.

This story takes place back in the 50's and 60's in midwest Ohio. Two fifteen year olds, in love, dreaming of their wedding and life together. Just like happened to most of us. It didn't happen. Both go your own ways and that person may remain in the recesses of your mind forever.

Then before you realize it, that reunion of 50 years comes up. Starts out as a simple acknowledgement and then an occasional email, then more frequent emails.

You wonder what if? The spark comes back and you as the reader get to take in their private email messaging. What happens to the marriages that have been in tact for years?

Can a long ago past love come to life again? If so, what kind of damage and hurt can it cause others and what will it do to their lives?

Follow the emails of Adam and Sarah and see what can happen when an old love becomes a re-kindled love.
I loved how the author put such realism into the book. You could relate to the characters. Perhaps you were, at once, in that situation. If not, think how you would have felt if you were. Characters could have been you, someone you know or even a relative. I like books that you can relate to.
Try this one, maybe you can relate? The author puts your mind in motion and gives you some life like things to think about. I liked the many different characters that you got to know. They each had their stories, all different and yet in a way, the same.

I received a complimentary copy of this book

from the authors and PUYB in exchange for my unbiased and honest view.

I would give this book 5 STARS.

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