Going to the Center

A Novel of a Woman's Life & a Prairie Town's History

von Marie Zorger Phillips

342 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mariah McPherson, the librarian of the fictional village of Lundy Center, celebrates the community and the prairie that she loves by collecting their history for the 1976 bicentennial. For a decade she gathers oral history conversations with colorful elders. She weaves together journal entries, family memories, and village stories with affectionate humor, while exploring social changes, mysteries, and heartaches.Her historical journey becomes her means of personal discovery, developing alongside the coming-of-age stories of several teenagers whom she mentors during the Vietnam War era and the Seventies. History does not stop with 1976; she and her 'children of her spirit' continue several stories to their resolution. Two of them become the editors of a revised edition of her history. The historical and current personal stories are expressed in the songs that several characters create for the annual Lundy Sunday Corn Boil & Music Fest as they remember their past and reflect on their times.

• Themen: Belletristik Historischer Roman
• ISBN: 9798996900305
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Zorger Phillips