Never Having to Say: Could Have, Should Have, Would Have

Author: Roslynne Steinberg

ISBN: 978-1-935186-66-3

Description:

5″ x 8.5″
perfect bound
212 pages
archival 70# white
48 photographs
22 original full color paintings

Cover painting of the author by Michael Holsomback

Editing, Type and Design by Karen Paul Stone

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016901798

Roslynne Steinberg struggled all her life with the knowledge that her father blamed her for causing the mental illness of her mother. A native of the Jewish Bronx in New York, she recounts overcoming her parents’ rejection and also tells of coping with the death of her own child. However she says, “No matter the lot we were cast at birth, and no matter how difficult the journey, life is a beautiful gift.” She is now an artist living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she is recognized for her painted images of her original home New York, New York. Includes 48 photographs and 22 original full color paintings.

What Readers Are Saying:

A must read book. Should be made into a movie.

Hollywood pay attention! Ms. Steinberg succeeds and overcomes all the trials and tribulations life throws out. Very few people can accomplish such a feat – and with success and doing it all her way.

~ Sokol Spiegel, Spanish/English Translator, CID USAR CARIB

A remarkable woman tells her story, one of confronting and surmounting adversities that would have broken many.

~ Treva Turner, Librarian, Library of Congress, retired

No warm welcome blanket swaddled Roslynne upon her arrival here. She was swatted; she cried for her very first time; and she discerned that this must be the stuff of life here. Growing up in the Bronx among a group of loving, though somewhat dysfunctional, relatives who ‘took her in’ she learned that # 1 They loved her as much as they had time for, and # 2 She was on her own. This is a book of timeline family, a gutsy story about peaks and valleys in a life, and a religiously written diary about reinvention – perhaps inspired by her first cry – “I am here!” An honest friend, mentor, and an inspiration to me and others, Roslynne personifies Chutzpah! Enjoy!

~ Carla Czybora, Retired – SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, GA~ Sam H. Woolwine, Retired Chattanooga News-Free Press sports writer