Jayne Lisbeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blind Birds of Youth, my third book due to be released in early 2027. ​ Blind Birds of Youth is a 1973 memoir of three friends embarking on a cross-country road trip enhanced by friendship, love and otherworldly events. As a then-novice writer, Ms. Lisbeth's journal is her constant companion bearing witness to their travels. The vast beauty of the country is set against the ugliness of the Vietnam War and the corruption of Watergate. The three friends departed with the bravado and joy of youth on the brink of emancipation into adulthood. Looking for adventure, fumbling towards their future, they met homefolk farmers and hippies, the best of the world and the lost dreamers of their generation. Their final destination threw them into the company of drugged, demented and discouraged "hard rock' miners in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Their eyes were opened to a previously unknown and undiscovered dark world. ​Blind Birds of Youth is a time capsule, a zeitgeist juxtaposed onto the backdrop of the turbulent world of 1973 against the realities and similarities of 2026. The memoir is a love story of friendship, lit by the rising sun of new experiences and shadowed by the darkness of night, sprinkled with bright stars of self-discovery. The three departed as blind birds and returned with eyes wide open with newfound wisdom.  

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                                        Raising the Dead                                      

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Emeline Upswatch, a naïve twenty-year-old bride, is grief stricken after the deaths of both of her beloved parents. Marooned in grief, Emeline feels she has died along with her parents. Emeline believes she has made a grave error in moving with her husband, Randy, from her California Delta childhood home to unknown Charles Town, Virginia, 3,000 miles away. She questions her marriage and herself.  In an unfamiliar world and intimidated by her mother-in-law, Emeline is rescued by the appearance of a mysterious older woman, Felicity, who becomes her dearest friend, mentor, and “other mother" with whom she can share her innermost feelings. Unlike Emeline, Felicity divulges nothing about her history or personal life. When Felicity disappears as mysteriously as she arrived, Em is determined to unearth her older friend’s whereabouts and true identity. What she ultimately discovers forces her to question her sanity, world, memories, and newfound joy.

           In her second novel, Raising the Dead,  Jayne Lisbeth cements her reputation as a “sensitive, entertaining and deeply moving writer.”  Her quirky, mysterious, home-spun and loveable characters and Ms. Lisbeth’s painterly prose keeps the reader engaged and entertained from the first page to the last.  Early reviews praise Raising the Dead  as “a deep and emotional account of Emeline’s introspective journey with a wholesome, spiritual, supernatural angle. Inspirational.  A poignant plot, with a well-structured,  assured writing style, sure to appeal to a wide audience.” 

 

 Raising the Dead and Writing in Wet Cement can be purchased online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingrams Booksellers and local independent booksellers.