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The Devil, the Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot
The Devil the Lovers and Me My Life in Tarot Author:Kimberlee Auerbach Kimberlee Auerbach has come a long way. She survived when her mother, newly single at fifty, moved into her apartment building, bleached her hair, bared her cleavage, and proceed to get way more action than her daughter wanted to know about. She also mustered up the strength to kick out her abusive boyfriendwho after two years togeth... more »er had still not found a job. And she finally met a good man on JDate. Things are looking up. But when she turns thirty-two, her friends sideswipe her with an intervention. Why isn't she married yet? Why doesn't she have a better job? Then her father administers the coup de grāce, whipping out an engagement ring over dinner at Morton's steak house. "Tell Eric he can buy it from me whenever he's ready," he says, handing over a copy of Closing the Deal. In desperation, Kimmi visits a tarot card reader named Irisor more precisely, Iris Rosenblatt, "Tarot Reader and Mirror of the Soul," a strangely prosaic mystic who defies all stereotypes. As Iris pulls cards like the Devil, the Lovers, and the Fool, Kimmi realizes that she is all of these charactersand that she must truly embrace who she is to discover the kind of person she'd like to become.« less