About
EILEEN STUKANE is the author of Running on Two Different Tracks, an e-book memoir that transports the reader through Italy and Lithuania, where Eileen’s family becomes redefined, first by a disappearance, and then by a child who is waiting to become her daughter. Running on Two Different Tracks is a 2015 publication of Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women.
More about Eileen: She can be found on the downtown Manhattan beat, following local political and community issues as a freelance reporter for Chelsea Now and The Villager newspapers. She is the author of five other books: The Dream Worlds of Pregnancy, and with Niels Lauersen M.D., Ph.D., four widely-read books on women's health: Listen To Your Body, A Gynecologist Answers Women's Most Intimate Question; PMS: Premenstrual Syndrome & You; You're In Charge, A Teenage Girl's Guide To Sex and Her Body; The Complete Book of Breast Care. She has held editorial positions at Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Self magazines and for eight years wrote the "Healthy Eating” column for Food & Wine. Her articles related to women's health have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, McCall's, Family Circle, Redbook, and numerous other national publications. Running on Two Different Tracks is her first memoir.
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Running On Two Different Tracks
Running on Two Different Tracks is a short (44-page) e-book memoir that transports the reader through Italy and Lithuania, where family becomes redefined, first by a disappearance, and then by a child who is waiting to become a daughter. Many women run on different emotional tracks every day as they manage family relationships. Running on Two Different Tracks is for them. For the many women who have waited to become mothers, Running on Two Different Tracks is their story too.
"Eileen Stukane tells the story of how joy and grief can co-exist, how broken hearts can still-–unbelievably!–make room for love."
–Ann Hood, bestselling author, most recently, of The Italian Wife