In 1907, seventeen-year-old Hazel Cunningham escapes her sheltered life for a healing spa in Texas, determined to become a silent film accompanist. Born with physical challenges but fierce ambition, she finds friendship, mentorship, and an unexpected suitor nearly twice her age. Hazel must choose between love’s security and the independence she’s always dreamed of.
Dorrie-Lenore Parsons lives outside Boston and is a graduate of the University of California and Boston University Wheelock. A fourth-generation member of a family of theater people, she built her career as a director, set designer, and teacher of Communications and Performing Arts before turning to fiction. Becoming Hazel is the first in her Inherited …
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Hazel Cunningham was born to faithful, loving parents in Kalamazoo, Michigan in December, 1889. She had a severe curvature of her spine and one shortened leg, and there was some talk about why the Lord had allowed that to happen – or whether it was a curse. But Hazel saw no reason why she should …
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This historical novel brings to life the defiant spirit of a woman who refused to be defined by disability. ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781665779180ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781665779203ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665779197
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