Perdita Finn

Suzan Saxman

We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away—and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house filled with secrets, she saw and spoke the truth as soon as she could talk, alarming the nuns in her convent school with her revelations and terrifying her own mother with her strange visions. Each night she woke to see a man with no eyes watching her, and each day she kept watch by the window while her father was at work and Steve, her real father, a swarthy drifter, rendezvoused with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it all, and be a daughter her mother could love. Always skeptical of her tremendous gift, she struggled to come to terms with her calling even as she revealed the destinies of everyone, from housewives to hit men, stockbrokers to rock-and-rollers. She could witness everyone's future—everyone's but her own. Why was she visited by angels and demons? Could she ever escape this strange fate? Where was her own soul mate? Now Suzan tells the story of her journey and tries to make sense of her family's buried secrets. Through powerful readings of others' destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges from the shadows.

A Memoir

The Reluctant Psychic

Durante a infancia, todos temiamos o barulho vindo do armario, a sombra esquiva no corredor, uma presenca estranha no quarto... Para Suzan Saxman, tudo isso era... normal. Os mortos aparecem-lhe desde sempre, trazendo mensagens para os vivos. No inicio, a pequena Suzan relatava a sua verdade com a inocencia tipica das criancas, assustando as freiras da escola com revelac?es, aterrorizando a m?e ao descrever-lhe bizarras vis?es. Durante anos, foi uma alma atormentada que desejava apenas ser... normal. A medida que os anos passaram, tornou-se cada vez mais dificil esconder o seu dom. E para que faze-lo, quando podia ajudar as pessoas a sua volta? Mas a incerteza permanecia: o que e que o futuro lhe reservaria a ela? Suzan revela-nos agora o longo caminho que percorreu ate se aceitar a si mesma e, ao mesmo tempo, desvendar os segredos que ha muito ensombravam a sua familia. Numa narrativa poderosa, que evoca tanto as suas experiencias pessoais como as sess?es de espiritismo realizadas com outros, ela mostra-nos o que significa verdadeiramente estar entre dois mundos.

Suzan Saxman

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