 Photo credits: 9699186 (pixabay), ready made (pexels) Edited by Vaishali Title: The Tapestry Author: Audrey Lewis Genre/Themes: Contemporary Fiction, Survival, gender disparity, healing, Publisher: Self Published Publication Date: 2022  An emerging writer on the scene of contemporary fiction, Audrey N. Lewis comes bearing the gift of a unique new release that pushes forth the bracket of inclusion. Lewis's The Tapestry is almost fresh off the loom to enjoy, and with an expected publication just less than a few short weeks away, readers will find themselves faced with an individualised chronicle the likes of which they've likely never experienced before. With themes of isolation, survival, healing, hope, miracle birth, hermaphroditism, albinism and gender ambiguity, the author establishes a thought-provoking setting with stirring themes that investigate a powerful sense of place and belonging through a virgin mother and her dual-gendered child. The Tapestry takes a deep look into the life and experience of an exiled woman and a child with a gift. A full-length scale gives this story the space to eke out a profound and sincerely sweeping set of messages through the interlacing coil of magical realistic alchemy. As Maia gives life to a child under the most improbable, impossible circumstances, Justice (her miracle baby), gives life to something much bigger. Within a community of fiction writers, Audrey Lewis makes some bold, beautiful and essential statements about an inclusive society, disparity and shakes a foundation that fewer still would dare to touch in her choice of representation. And here I am, utterly delighted in the run up to The Tapestry's publication release to give you a guest post written Audrey Lewis herself! As the author expresses, The Tapestry was written as a response to counter displays of the hate culture. With strong, unmoving beliefs of equality across the board, for all hearts and humans, Audrey felt nothing less than compelled to write and share Maia and Justice's story. Hounded and disturbed by a culture of selective acceptability, and with many questions about the elitism that challenges the existence of difference, the author asserts that historical justification be not the precedent to explain away hate. One of her leading characters, Justice, becomes a symbol that overturns and confronts current displacement while still being burdened with having to be so much and give so much in a world where her/his difference and existence is still a novelty and a division. Difference is a powerful, needful and even curative mover of the human experience, existence and adventure. And I now leave you with Audrey's voice, where love, healing and hope are the biggest places to travel. Enjoy her guest post!  THE TAPESTRY: Difference should not be reduced in a world of difference
The Tapestry was written in response to individuals who were full of hate, who didn’t believe in differences. Individuals who felt no remorse for their actions, as the world once again mourned victims from senseless shootings this time at The Pulse Nightclub. Victims who died due to hate. Without explanation, words were sent swirling through the Universe until they stopped with me. Words that allowed me to give birth to The Tapestry. Words that allowed me to introduce both Maia and Justice to the world. The pureness of a virgin mother and the child she gave birth to, a child with both the gender of a male and female, without skin of color, blind so that all she/he could see was what was in her mind's eye, in her heart. So that all were equal. Full of gifts that allowed her/him to share, open lives to what gave them life, filled them with love, and allowed them to forgive. Gifts that changed each of them in a way that allowed them to see what they needed most so that they too could open themselves up to share. I thought about a paragraph that had haunted me for decades.
While I wrote, all I could do was wonder what it would take in current times for people to listen, hear, live with compassion and believe. It is truly as simple as the words stated,"All people are created equal.” So what is it that makes so many individuals believe that they are better than their fellow humans. What is it that allows them to separate themselves from the masses? There is no respect for others whose individual beliefs are different from their own.They do not believe that each individual should be allowed the privilege and freedom to see things differently. Instead they use their beliefs to not only feed their hate but to make it acceptable and right. Believing that they are better and that there is no room in their world for less. Each of us, no matter who we are, no matter what we believe, no matter where we come from, we were and are all created equal. Even those created in a test tube were created with an egg being fertilized by sperm, developing into an embryo.Born with bones and muscles, with red blood that flows through veins that connect to a heart and brain. We are all people who are created equal. Each human relieves themselves through bodily functions as waste passes through their body by urination or defecation. We are all people who are created equal. Each human inhales and exhales as they breathe, and as humans each has the ability to communicate. We are all people who are created equal. This is what I honestly believe, which is why it is so difficult for me to witness the never-ending lack of compassion, acceptance, and understanding. There are always the people who find ways to explain this enigma. Explaining that throughout history this is the way it was. Does that make it right? Have we humans not evolved at all? Have we not learned anything about the benefits of love vs hate. Because it is historically the way it has been? How is that right? The hatred of those that were different in gender, ethnicity, religion, etc… and entitlement has indeed been going on since the beginning of time. Is it not time to change that? As a people, can we really justify that we are simply building off of what we, generation after generation, had learned and passed on through the ages. There is so much hate and anger that our days have become filled with it; people taking life into their own hands randomly or not. They use hate as the impetus to fuel hate itself. In The Tapestry it is the differences, how everyone sees Justice for what they need to see that brings forgiveness, hope and love to the world. Justice teaches each of us that it is the gifts from within that are given without expectations. Gifts that often come with sacrifice that are reminders we are all equal, we all deserve to be loved. Yet it was Justice whose gift caused her the greatest of pain while filling others with the greatest of joys. In her acts of kindness of trying to make the pain of others go away she found herself alone, sacrificing so much of herself. I wonder if that is something we forget to notice in those who give so much of themselves. Who always appear to be smiling, who seem to be so strong. Do we forget to notice that they too may need to feel equal? To be full? To feel loved? May you be full every day. - Audrey T H E B A C K O F T H E B O O K...
THE TAPESTRY - B Y A U D R E Y N. L E W I S
A big thank you to Audrey for getting in touch and participating in this guest post!  W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D A U D R E Y A N D H E R W O R K ● Website: https://www.audreynlewis.com/ ● Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14104900.Audrey_N_Lewis ● Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-has-a-Story-These-are-ours-by-Audrey-N-Lewis/951751178202620?ref=hl ● Amazon UK ● Amazon US I love interacting with fellow readers, reviewers, bloggers and writers. Hearing about reader opinion is the fuel to my reader appetite, so get in touch and comment below! H A P P Y R E A D I N G SHARE ON FACEBOOK:  Leave a comment and let's talk...
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