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The Artist's Family: A Tale of Love, Loss,
and Unbreakable Bonds

The Artist’s Family is a fascinating journey through Elaine’s life, consisting of love, loss, and rediscovery. After a traumatic robbery prompts her to reevaluate her existence, Elaine goes on a soul-stirring adventure along the California Central Coast.

As she faces the twists of fate, Elaine encounters her true love and finds the astonishing truth about her father, a renowned artist believed to be lost. The narrative deepens as long-lost family members, including a brother and Baby Sister, resurface, setting the stage for a touching reunion.

The family’s interconnected bonds, akin to the sturdy roots of the Redwood trees portrayed in her father’s painting, are put to the test when Baby Sister, now a celebrated actress and musician, faces a harrowing kidnapping for ransom. The family rallies together, showcasing the resilience of their unity.

In an unexpected turn, we go into the past, hearing the untold story of Mom, Dawn Jones, a teen model who reached the pinnacle of success only to see her career end abruptly in her early twenties. A house fire separates the family, and Dawn’s subsequent decision to flee Child Protective Services (CPS) leads to a nomadic life in her car, marking a tragic chapter in their lives.

Set in the 1960s through the 1990s, The Artist’s Family is a profound exploration of family ties, resilience, and the enduring spirit that binds us together through the highs and lows of life.

 

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Visiting the Scenes in The Artist's Family
a novel by Elicia Burton Elaine:

Smiling girl about 7, who also holds the world on her shoulders, looking out for her baby sister in the back of a car, where her Mom is driving, and her brother and she are singing to the radio, and the highway landscape is cornfields or mountain passes. She is joyful, in the experience of the sun coming over her through the window, making her warm and cozy, and safe. Elaine: Turning into a young woman, taking out her hair, cutting it, changing her look and clothing, becoming an antique dealer, driving to the antique store in search of a sale of a good bargain. Or pulling into a National Park, and setting up by a river, where she relaxes with a book or takes a hike. The Artist James Jacob Jones enters the room, gathers his audience’s attention, and makes a toast to his engagement with Maggie. The Band plays and people dance including Bob and Elaine. They are in an Art Gallery James Jacob Jones: Finds Dawn in the back of a seedy bar, and carries her to his car, he sits up all night long, remembering the last week he had spent with her, on the Merry-go-round, between the canvases, and her cleaning his apartment before she left earlier that day, and now here she is acting like this, he is torn emotionally see her this way. Fade out James Jacob Jones with Maggie arrive at Brenner’s by the sea and are greeted by his grandboys. Maggie has the baby in her arms, he brings out his art supplies, and the dog, Rocky a Golden Retriever joins them as they play ring around the roses in the driveway. It’s a sunny day, the ocean waves and seagulls can be heard a distance away. Elaine: misunderstanding that Bob had not sold the Painting of the Redwood trees, but had given it to her. A couple going into the van to make love. Fade out Elaine: sitting at a round table in the back of the store burping a baby girl over her shoulder, two young boys a year or so apart sit next to each other reading books, a thin young blond woman enters the antique store and starts a conversation, about the restaurant down the street. She begins to look around the store and ends up standing in front of a Redwood tree painting, which somehow takes her breath away, she sits down with Elaine, the baby, and the two boys trying not to faint. Elaine offers her a cookie and a cup of coffee, then she realizes who this young woman is, she gets a photograph out of an album in the draw, and makes the realization, this woman is her Baby Sister, and also the rock star and actress. S

About Book

Visiting the Scenes in The Artist's Family
a novel by Elicia Burton Elaine:

She shows Baby Sister the photograph and she is overwhelmed by her feelings, this dizziness makes her faint realizing she has found her family.  Daniel: He is visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in the cafeteria, he is having trouble with his cane and his lunch tray when Lily comes and helps him to a table and joins him for lunch, where they fall hard for each other, a real Love and first sight moment.  Fade out Daniel: is sitting at the table in the back of the store, having grabbed his long-lost sister’s hand, she is crying, big tears rolling down her cheek. Her husband comes over ready to fight off the intruder. But she stops him and tells him, “It’s Daniel, my brother!” The Family is coming together. Baby Sister: is cleaning the house up, making it her home, and though only 10 or 11 she is on her own, so talented and untrained, more focused than most children her age, she dances out the yard, and falls on the grass, smelling the dirt and the weed and grass, looking up at the stars, she remembers a time when she was a small child sitting out in the back of a rest area, by her Mom who sat on the picnic table, and her brother and sister playing tumbling and dancing in the grass in front of her. She wonders where they are now, remembering them being more like a mom and dad taking care of her. The music is blaring she gathers herself up as she has gotten cold sitting outside, and goes back into the house through the sliding glass door. Baby Sister: On Stage, as a very young teenager, singing, and entertaining, then later, sitting at a grand piano, playing her songs and singing, night after night, at first to a few, and as time goes on to a packed crowd. Then the scene moves to her singing in a recording studio and on a huge stadium stage with a large band behind her. Fade out Baby Sister: wakes up tied to a chair, she looks terrible, there is a phone at her face. “Are you alright?” She answers barely awake, “I’m Alive.” The phone is pulled away from her, and she faints back into the chair she is tied to. Baby Sister: and Tommy, a handsome tall, well-built young surfer-looking man dressed in their bridal clothing stand under a circle of Redwood trees taking their vows. A small group of musicians are singing about Love. The Wedding party is beautifully dressed. The Artist’s Family are all together for this wedding.

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