That's What You Think

About the Book

That’s What You Think chronicles Sara Ellis’s journey from independence to dependence. Although the story is based on her own mother’s dilemmas in aging, beginning when her mother turned eighty-eight years-old, Joyce found the writing to be both joyous and cathartic to fictionalize. “The writing helped me to believe that my mother really thought these things that make this book my heartfelt gift to her memory.

“For a long time, sadness blocked me from finishing our story, but my mother’s dignity and the time I spent with her encouraged me to translate the traumas of aging into a story of love and respect.

“Thank you, Mom, for taking me with you in your final hours.”

About the Author

Joyce Bortnick writes her first novel, inspired by her own mother’s journey into old age. Joyce grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from the University of Maryland. After college, she moved an hour away, to the suburbs of Washington D.C. She is married, with two children and four grandchildren and divides her time between Florida and Maryland. Using words and arranging them to convey something meaningful has always been important to her. Writing songs, poems, plays, and stories in high school, college and throughout her marriage, fueled her dreams of one day writing a significant story. She is already planning more stories to write.