The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss by Nancy Freund Bills Book Spotlight!

In the summer of 1994, freak lightning and thunderstorm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Bills' husband and critically wounding her younger son. She promises her late husband that she will write their family’s story and bind it with a red ribbon of love and courage. The Red Ribbon is a story of surviving the many and often devastating lightning strikes of life, and a gift of compassion and wisdom for readers who are struggling with their own losses.

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Nancy Freund Bills, a native of Montana, has lived almost all her adult life in northern New England. She is currently on the faculty of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine, OLLI/USM, where she facilitates the fiction writing workshop. She is a retired clinical social worker; during her twenty-year-long career, she served both as a psychiatric social worker at Concord Regional Hospital in New Hampshire and at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, and as a psychotherapist at Green House Group, a group private practice in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Bills received an MS in twentieth century literature and art from the University of Rochester and an MSW in clinical social work from the University of Connecticut. She and her two Maine Coon cats live on the southern coast of Maine. This is her first full-length memoir.

https://nancybills-memoir.com/