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Mindi Boston is a novelist residing in Tennessee. She employs Hemingway’s sage advice to “simply sit down at the typewriter and bleed,” connecting with her readers on a profound level. Her unique voice and experiences bring raw emotion and a personal depth to readers as they follow her on a remarkable journey.
Boston is a former freelance writer and journalist, having written professionally for corporations and websites, with her lifestyle work being featured in popular print and online publications, including YourTango, Sasee Magazine, MSN Lifestyle, and Yahoo! Life. She remains active in her local writing community. In her spare time, she caters to four spoiled dogs, one spoiled husband, and two amazing grown-ups that call her Mom.
Boston released her novel, The Girl in the Rusted Cage, in August 2024. This epic story follows 16-year-old Emily Chandler through the trials and tribulations of teenage motherhood, young marriage, toxic relationships, and surviving the stereotypes forced upon her. Will she persevere through tragedy or become another victim of the system? Find out in The Girl in the Rusted Cage.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2024
Only an author who understands the mind and world of a pregnant teenage girl could write this with such compassion and understanding of complex family dynamics. The book is brilliantly written, painful at times, with insight into our own daughters, and our own struggles as parents, lighting a way of hope for a families and teens in the darkness.
Emotional rollercoaster
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024
As a woman, and as a mother, this book will break your heart. I felt so deeply for the young heroine and the impossible choices she faced at such a young age. Her strength and determination to escape the brutal situations she finds herself in gives you a character worth rooting for. If you want a book that will make you cry, this is it.
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
It is a story of heartbreak and self redemption. It's a story about life and being a winner in the end. You wonder if Em will make it out of her predicaments, but she always manages. A gutsy story.
Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2024
I am a Board Certified Psychiatrist with a 20 bed inpatient adolescent unit. This book should be read by EVERY teenage girl age 13-15+ AND their parents. All would benefit and learn not only WHAT to do and WHAT to avoid, but why it is necessary to do so. My hospital will get multiple copies for the unit! I look forward to ready Boston's next book.
A must-read! Could not put it down.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
Truth be told, I don’t read for fun near as much as I used to. After years of reading texts and studying for school, I was just burnt out. Nothing could keep my attention, and I often found myself having to reread what I had just read to follow the text. But then I read Mindi’s book and I am so glad I did. It is a masterpiece. She is a talented writer with a way of bringing printed words on paper to life.
From the first chapter, I was drawn in and could not put it down. I could easily identify with the main character, Emily, and found myself feeling Emily’s emotions as I turned each page. I cheered at her successes, cried at her pain and heartache, shared in her anger at the unfairness of life, and laughed with her as she reflected on herself.
Though Mindi doesn’t know the intimate details of my own life story, somehow she was able to profoundly articulate the same thoughts and feelings I’ve had as I’ve walked through life. Reading “The Girl in the Rusted Cage” gave me a feeling of solidarity with Emily, and on a deeper level, brought me a feeling of healing and being understood like I never have before. I didn’t feel so alone or abnormal in the world anymore. Some of the content is heavy, but such are the realities of life.
I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve read more than once in my life, and I don’t keep many hard copy books in my library anymore, but this will definitely be one of them.
I highly recommend “The Girl in the Rusted Cage.”
10/10 I would recommend. I couldn't put it down.
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
I read this in one sitting because I simply had to know what Emily’s next step was going to be. The author has poured her heart and soul into Emily and into these pages and it’s clear by how much I loved Emily and how much I cared for her.
This book was heavy. It was a ride. I laughed, I cried, I was angry, I got even angrier, I cried some more, and it was also heartwarming. I have a feeling that Emily’s story will be one that stays with me.
I couldn’t recommend this more, just be warned that it deals with some very heavy topics if you are sensitive to those just prepare yourself.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
This author has an uncanny ability to put you right in the scene, to feel and see exactly what the characters do. Her eloquence and powerful storytelling are simply captivating and have forever changed the way I view women’s struggles. This novel brings you on a rollercoaster of emotions that everyone should be fortunate enough to ride.
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2024
The author is so descriptive, one can feel the character's pain. This is a gripping story, so real, one that I couldn't stop reading once I started. So many emotions ran thru me as I read. I look forward to more from this author.
"Wisps of cotton candy shards easing out of a cobalt sky, a rhythmic trickle over smooth rocks, dewed-over mown bermuda under a full moon. Sights, sounds, smells that conjure a defining moment, that bring a euphoric rush, a sweeping melancholy, a stifled fear.
Trademarks of Mindi Boston’s words, these are. Her stories of love, grief, rage, acceptance, friendship, and family, are riddled with penetrating darts into the readers’ personal history, their relationships, their losses and triumphs. Lines of dialogue, thoughts, and decisions by Boston’s protagonists both wise and disastrous, are all of us; they have shaped who we are, what we hold dear, and are, thus, scenes and stories that leave us spellbound.
Beside an autumn leaf, under a hushed whisper, watching tea jitter on a trestle table at the approach of a looming storm…you’re there. It’s you."
— Mike Hancock, M.F.A., international educator and author of “Fallen” from Force Poseidon Books, 2020
Mindi Boston came to me as that rare writer with an instinctive grasp of story timing, dialogue pacing, and appropriate vocabulary levels for the audience. I didn't need to coach her on any of that. Combine that with a compelling story and complex characters that feel real, and you can see why I was optimistic from the first read.
My challenge was to seek and recommend areas for improvement. How does a teacher handle a student who was bumped forward three grades? With care, because the starting material was good enough that a clumsy or dogmatic editor could push it a step or two backward. And yet she took wonderfully to refinement and guidance, her professional writing background and attitude on display, filling in necessary detail and glad to phase out whatever didn't advance a compelling story.
Don't let her get away with trying to give me too much credit; she was that good before I met her. I don't even normally read this genre for leisure, and I enjoyed even the first draft. I'm excited to see Mindi's authorial career take flight and soar past the common run of first-time novels.
— J.K. Kelley, Editor
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10/10 would recommend. I couldn’t put it down.
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
I read this in one sitting because I simply had to know what Emily’s next step was going to be. The author, Mindi, has poured her heart and soul into Emily and into these pages and it’s clear by how much I loved Emily and how much I cared for her.
This book was heavy. It was a ride. I laughed, I cried, I was angry, I got even angrier, I cried some more, and it was also heartwarming. I have a feeling that Emily’s story will be one that stays with me.
I couldn’t recommend this more, just be warned that it deals with some very heavy topics if you are sensitive to those just prepare yourself.
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