Generations Intertwine

The Rest of the Story

Fiction - Mystery - Historical
265 Pages
Reviewed on 02/12/2018
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Author Biography

Joyce K. Gatschenberger, who is a teacher and a nurse, has authored the scathing memoir Lines of Listening. It's an expose' of child abuse and marital betrayal. The companion book, Generations Intertwine has it all - indiscretions in a solid marriage, an illegitimate heir and hidden caches of money. Both publications, Lines of Listening and Generations Intertwine, are powerful stories of knowing, accepting and then acting on betrayal. You can follow Joyce at her health and wellness blog at LinesofListeningblog.wordpress.com. Her writing impetus is set in her family.

    Book Review

Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite

Generations Intertwine: The Rest of the Story by Joyce K. Walters is a hard-hitting and emotional story of how one man’s indifference and casual callousness toward his relationship can affect not just those in the immediate vicinity, but can in fact create generational angst and pain. William Henry, a military veteran, discovered early on in his career, that deployment on missions often opened up the opportunity for romantic dalliances that could be kept secret from his wife and family. After his army career ended, William found an out-of-state job gave him the perfect opportunity to live a double life with effectively two families – one in Las Vegas and one in Colorado. What William had no way of understanding was how these two separate lives would one day intersect and the pain it would cause all those who professed to know and love William Henry.

Joyce K. Walters pulls no punches in Generations Intertwine. She is scathing, and probably rightly so, of William’s aberrant behaviour. Because this story is told almost exclusively from the perspective of the women in William’s family, it is totally understandable that this should be so. As a male reader, the story more than once gave me pause to stop and think, “How is it that so many men are able to rationalise away their cheating and conniving and live seemingly happy and fulfilled lives, while the women in their lives are left to carry the burden and suffering?” Although this book is presented as fiction, it’s hard not to believe that it is rooted in some part of the author’s life experience. They say truth is stranger than fiction and going by the coincidental generational intertwining in this story, it’s hard to argue with that. I believe any novel that makes the reader think and ask questions about themselves, and their morality or code of ethics, has done a worthy job. This book certainly does that, so kudos to Walters. A very good read.