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Forty-nine and single.
Fired from her lifelong passion: teaching music.
Stripped of her self-worth.
Can she reclaim her life through bicycle racing?
Joanne Brick’s thirty years as an elementary school music teacher evaporated into the rising sea of layoffs. A lifetime of dedication gone. At forty-nine, single with an ailing mom and bitter divorced sister, the future looked bleak. Family relationships soured as conversations moved to “the lettuce zone”–cold and crisp.
Then one day, while cleaning out the garage for a yard sale, inspiration struck as she dusted off an old long-forgotten bicycle. And when she took her first ride she knew it was time to sink or pedal.
“Onward! That was the answer that had eluded her earlier. There was dignity in that word. There was hope.”
Never a sports fanatic and sorely out of shape, Joanne was barely able to ride straight, but she took up bicycle racing because it added purpose to her life.
“Joanne increased her own speed. The wind whipped her face. The whirring of the spinning spokes and chains rose in pitch as she spun faster. She was flying again, beyond failed careers, spurned lovers, regrets, and mistakes. She spun even quicker. Her breath came in swift, hard grunts.”
She pedaled past unemployment, failed relationships, family drama, and career loss. Her life began to fill with new friends, an inspirational Desert Storm vet turned cycling coach, and a sleek new physique from all the training. Then she ran into a brick wall in the form of Sheila Dominary, a women’s bike racing adversary.
Will Joanne regain her confidence as she pedals toward redemption, romance, adventure, and life beyond unemployment?
Pedal is an inspirational journey. It is a contemporary story that deals not only with family relationships, but also with life’s turning points and how ordinary people handle them.
About Inspirational Contemporary Women’s Fiction Author Louis K. Lowy
A former firefighter, Louis K. Lowy sometimes feel as if he jumped from the fire into the frying pan when he took up writing as a means to fulfill his passion to create characters and worlds that he longed to inhabit or longed to avoid. He also plays bass guitar, though not as frequently–something’s gotta give when you write. He is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, his work has appeared in, among others, New Plains Review, The MacGuffin Magazine, The Chaffey Review, and the anthology Everything Is Broken. His first novel, Die Laughing, is a humorously dark sci-fi adventure set in the 1950s. Mr. Lowy hopes Pedal will inspire women and men of all ages to overcome contemporary life’s turning points. He has two grown children. He lives in Miami Lakes, FL, with his wife and their terrier, KC.
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