My Name As A Prayer

Author: Sheridan Hill
Publisher:
ISBN 978-0-9791355-0-7
Price: $12.95
Available: Amazon.com, Borders, The Muses

Troyanne Ross was an eccentric and humorous charm school owner in Charlotte, NC, who never relinquished her dream of being a star -- even on her deathbed. Sheridan Hill, a Black Mountain author, has published an intimate memoir chronicling the emotional healing and patient-caretaker challenges that she experienced with her mother, Troyanne Ross, during her mother's last year of life.

My Name As A Prayer begins with a hilarious chapter of mother-daughter angst and eventually moves to end-of-life issues. Ross was a prominent figure in the state in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as one of the country's first weather women on WSOC-TV, a frequent star in Little Theatre productions, and the owner of the city's first modeling and personal development school.

"A wonderful book! Hill has a huge talent...very sharp at the detail level, exceptionally deft dialogue, daring self-revelations...a magnificent job."
-- Robert Franklin, Founder, McFarland & Company

"Extremely skillful and moving writing. The mother's ramblings are a genuine revelation of a level of meaning not accessible to ordinary discourse."
-- Ann Deagon

"An observant, wry, loving...memoir about caring for her mother -- an irrepressible Charlotte charm schoolteacher -- during the last year of her mother's life."
-- Rob Newfeld, Asheville Citizen-Times