Sitting with the Enemy

A serendipitous trip to a small mountain village unravels the successful lives of a two-career LA couple in this engaging story of hope and transformation. In Sitting with the Enemy, her first novel, Sarah Anne Edwards confronts her readers with some of the most challenging paradoxes of our materialistic culture and provides an inspiring peek at alternative possibilities.

“The pressures of our success-obsessed and perfectionistic world leave many of us exhausted and restless,” says Edwards, an LCSW and PhD ecopsychologist and co-author of seventeen popular non-fiction books on career and lifestyle change. “Driven by a gnawing hunger and relentless pressure to attain more and more, we get trapped in a never-ending cycle of jam-packed schedules, over drawn bank accounts and maxed-out credit cards,” she explains.

Why do we always feel there’s something missing in our lives despite our material wealth? Why is there never enough time in the day? Why do most of us live in metro areas when we say we’d prefer to live in smaller more natural communities? Why are we more stressed and dis-stressed despite having more of almost everything we say we want?

These are just a few of the questions Edwards addresses in this intriguing ecopsychological drama. She believes the source of peace and serenity we crave is all around us, but too often unnoticed, ignored and slowly disappearing from the landscape of our daily lives. That’s the reality the characters of Sitting with the Enemy face as they struggle to save themselves and their families from becoming casualties of what we’ve come to believe constitutes the progress of success.