Off Kilter – A Woman's Jouirney to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage
Growing up in the 1950s was not Ozzie & Harriet and Father Knows Best for Linda C. Wisniewski. Unlike the characters on her favorite TV shows, Linda learned to be quiet, atone for the sins of others, and just plain suffer as a way of life. Only when she came to terms with her Polish Catholic heritage, her physical deformity, and her widowed mother did she find inner peace and the keys to her own happiness.
Readers of Angela's Ashes and The Joy Luck Club will enjoy this mother-daughter saga from sorrow to love.
Author Susan Wittig Albert calls Off Kilter "a splendid first memoir about the difficult business of finding balance in our lives. Funny, honest, deeply moving, Off Kilter reminds us just how hard it is to adjust to the physical pain, the emotional loss, and even the surprising beauty of being fully who we are."
About Linda C. Wisniewski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Author)
Linda C. Wisniewski lives in Bucks County, PA where she volunteers at the historic home of author Pearl S. Buck and teaches memoir workshops. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Linda's memoir, Off Kilter, was published by Pearlsong Press. Her debut novel, Where the Stork Flies, was released in 2021 by Sand Hill Review Press. Linda shares a home with her retired scientist husband and rescue cat Denyse. She is the mother of two grown sons and blogs at www.lindawis.com.
