BOOK SUMMARY
Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother’s secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, and AIDS all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author’s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the reader uplifted and wanting more.
It is the early 60’s in Europe, when a breathtakingly beautiful interracial couple dance great ballets together and fall passionately in love. She is a Dutch ballerina and he is an African-American international ballet star. They come to America and create a family and a new life. While their daughter Alexis grows up dancing before she can walk, the marriage grows angrily apart. Her father soon becomes one of the few celebrated black choreographers on Broadway, while her mother turns toward a shockingly desperate existence of survival.
At age eleven, Alexis’s world comes crashing. Her mother abandons her and her brother and they are shuttled off to New York City to live with their adoring larger-than-life father, the footlights that beam on the likes of Sammy Davis Jr., Chita Rivera, and the other man in her father’s life.
Wonderful!!!!!
Thank you Julliette! XX
EXQUISITE!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait to read your brilliant, extraordinary journey. How lucky all of us are that you have chosen to share it.
Brilliant!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes! I’m so excited this moment has come and that we call get to journey with you.
Oh, and will you please read the whole book to me?
Will you please read the entire book to me… ???
What an amazing achievement! So happy for you Alexis!
I can’t wait to devour this amazing tale that was the foundation of Alexis Wilson Stripling’s upbringing. Glamorous, uplifting, inspiring, and heart-wrenching, it promises all the ingredients of a can’t-put-it down read!
I have to read this! I learned about it from a post on facebook from my friend Lynn Sterling.
Congratulations! I know how hard you have worked in this book. I am glad to see it come all together. Planning to be at the launch. Sandra
The cover alone captures the imagination and entices the observer to want to know more, and read it!
Alexis I don’t know if you remember childhood friend of parkers and I have been trying to find him I also love your book!
Thank you Michael! I hope you are well. Parker is well and still living in NY. Thank you so much for your support.
Hi Alexis this is Mike Harrison Parkers childhood friend, I wanted to know if you could let hom know I am trying to contact him. Also i read your book it was very moving.
Wishing you much success, and hopefully a trip to South Florida!
Just let me know when Novice
It is a fabulous book by a fabulous woman.
Thank you cuz!! XX
Congratulations Alexis! I am looking forward to reading your book! See you at your NY launch! Big hug! Marva Hicks
Thank you Marva
So excited that you’ll be there!!
Soon as I heard of this fabulous book it was first on my Christmas wish list!
Thank you Holly for letting me see hear and feel you again! How little I knew back then………with love Karen Henry
Karen! I apologize. I just read this message.I hope all is really well with you and thank you for reaching out! Where are you living now? XX “H”
See you May 13!
Yay!! Look forward to seeing you there! XX
hi holly, this is charles willis. it was great to see you last week at your book signing. awesome event. congratulations as well. i read your book over the last few days and it was fascinating, and i couldnt put it down. thanks for sharing all of those extremely personal and intimate moments with your family. especially intriguing for me because our lives crossed for a brief period, and i have my own special memories from that time also as well from your dad, chip, yourself and parker. funny, for college i applied to carnegie mellon for engineering but was waitlisted so i went to syracuse university instead (finished in 90).
Anyway, i wanted to write to you after reading your book. again thanks! please share w parker. would like to catch up with him. i live in brooklyn (bed-stuy) now. i now work in finance, a world away from the arts, which i sometimes now think about given my early exposure to such awesome talent like your dad and sammy davis jr, so i embrace it whenever i can now as it brings back memories of a less stressful time for me. thanks again.
Thank you for coming Monday night and for sharing your thoughts with me! Please contact me anytime Charles
My best, “Holly”