Think This is a Depression? Enter the Lives of Those Who’ve Been Through The Great Depression

March 31, 2009 - PRLog -- (Buffalo, NY, April 1, 2009)—Last month we saw the unemployment rate rise above 8%, but that is still a far cry from the almost 30% experienced in the early 1930’s.
“In my day, poor people didn’t have shoes. Today, poor people don’t have cable,” said an elderly man who helped inspire the fiction novel, Trimming the Blue Hairs by up and coming author Cristin Frank.
   Trimming the Blue Hairs depicts the transformation of a rising cosmetologist as she builds a business and a life through the social and economic lessons of her elderly clients. They may use sour cream container lids as coasters and hide valuables in pill bottles, but they know that real value comes from relationships.
   Through evolving maturity, Ella Boyce’s life comes together with all the necessary ingredients - career, romance and family. Meanwhile, her clients of “The Greatest Generation” share memories, outdated expressions and ultimately struggle to come to grips with their life so that they can pass on in peace.
When twenty-five year old Ella impulsively hands over her trade-in keys (apartment keys included) to a used car salesman, she must resort to waking the legally blind maintenance man in her building to unlock her door. As guilty compensation, she offers to cut his hair; never expecting the elderly widow across the hall would usurp the half-hearted offer. Ella decides to charge her an astronomical fee to prohibit future requests. Then Ella relinquishes any payment for the begrudged appointment, taking pity on her neighbor’s desolate life--noticing it’s much like her own. The one-hour ordeal opens the door to a business and a life, through symbiosis with a generation she once ignored.
Trimming the Blue Hairs was conceived when Ms. Frank moved from a fast-paced design agency lifestyle in Chicago to her aging family in Buffalo, NY. “Learning of the hardships that my grandparents’ generation had to overcome made me more aware of opportunity and empowerment that is still available in what we consider difficult times,” commiserates Ms. Frank. “Trimming the Blue Hairs was truly written for all ages.”

The video book trailer can viewed on YouTube.com through www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1E0Qd4YItY

Trimming the Blue Hairs
By Cristin Frank
Paperback; 201 pages
ISBN # 978-0-595-48591-8
Published: October 16, 2008
$14.95.
For more information or to order, please visit www.iuniverse.com or call 1-800-AUTHORS. Trimming the Blue Hairs is available at all online retailers such as Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and may also be ordered through your local Barnes & Noble Bookstore.

Media Contact: Cristin Frank, Williamsville, NY, 716.580.3993, www.cristinfrank.com, Cristin.frank@yahoo.com

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About novel Trimming the Blue Hairs: Trimming the Blue Hairs by Cristin Frank depicts the transformation of a rising cosmetologist as she builds a business and a life through the social and economic lessons of her elderly clients. They may use sour cream container lids as coasters and hide valuables in pill bottles, but they know that real value comes from relationships.