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THE FIRST FOUR of Marguerite's
second six books are these:
The Leaving;
Eventide;
Field Notes;
and The Labyrinth.🎋
IN MARGUERITE'S FIRST six books; she shared with you a wonderful eclectic selection of modern topics; often; political topics. But here; she would turn back.-To a lovely newer form; of some her treasured old biographical works; that would include her Leni books.-For that dear smart schoolgirl; Leni van Meer; who had such a lovely interesting; if not also; sometimes difficult life to share! But an immigrant life was always cool!
For the delicious double-vision you would own. Growing up; you could see two worlds!-You could see two languages; two cultures; two histories; two worlds. And you would learn a lot from that! You would learn a lot of beautiful things. Though you would also learn a lot of difficult things perhaps. You would see a lot of difficult things; heartbreaking things; as in America today. You would see things you did not want to see.🎋
THESE BOOKS will feature a beautiful simple original cover foto and design. And some very clean poignant writing inside! Marguerite never grows tired of writing these stories! She will call them novellas perhaps.
For their more simple gentle
immediate scope.
A novella is more clean; more pure; than a long messy jumbled winding novel. Where you must tie together the bumblings and anxieties; of several generations; in one long winding; albeit delicious; tome.
And she has written and enjoyed those too. Everything in its own day and time! And in its own irresistible deliciousness. Sometimes too; she will call her books small collections of short stories perhaps.-If their subjects are more loosely related; or their time frames; more loosely linked.-She hopes you enjoy!🎋
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THE LEAVING.
Paperback; 6x9; 83 pages.
Here is a lovely gentle dear small novella.
Of twelve thoughtful chapters; and 83 pages.🎋
AND A LOVELY unintended echo perhaps.-Of Marguerite's just-prior book; Fledgling Season. You will notice a similar aspect of the head and body position; between that dear fledgling crow; and that dear schoolgirl girl; Leni van Meer.-Who had; at that vulnerable time; likewise not yet sufficient wings to fly! Though yet; they suddenly seemed required of her!
But a smart smart brain did not always mean; or ever mean; that the wings were there yet! At seventeen.-No. Not at seventeen.-No. Nonetheless; these are delicious quirky cultural stories. Of a newly immigrant family; who does not yet have the means; nor the sufficient American experience; to know how to divine paths and roads for their six smart hardworking children; in a strange foreign land.🎋
IN THIS GENTLE wise quirky Dutch-immigrant inflected novella; a young innocent high school girl in the early nineteen-seventies; and a top scholar in her big bustling high school; is eased; to put it in a mild way; and for better or worse; out of her family home way too soon.
She has only just turned seventeen!
And she is a truly sheltered innocent girl.
(Well; in a certain sense she is.)
Though not by the trouble
she has seen in that home.
To be followed by The Labyrinth. Which is a brave searching difficult book; in which we will help that girl through. Well; somebody has too!🎋
EVENTIDE.
Paperback; 6x9; 83 pages.
Here is another dear gentle small novella;
of ten thoughtful chapters; and 83 pages.🎋
SHE JUST COULDN'T watch
a world at war anymore.
She just couldn't sleep! Watching a world at war. She could find no peace that way! Watching a world at war. Thinking; if the whole world is watching; and given what the whole world knows of war; shouldn't we be able to stop this war? So she and that dear Leni-girl; finally sat down; to write this dear small gentle tome for you; of what they thought of war. As they did know a thing or two about that! And thank you then; beautiful girl!
For thinking so deeply about that for so long. And then; for remembering too!-The long-ago world your family knew. Because if you have seen war; or if your family has seen war; then you cannot really not see war. You cannot really say you didn't see that war. You cannot really not say anything!🎋
BUT SHE WAS thinking of this as
a book about peace.-Especially
for Christmastime.
She was thinking of this as a book about peace. Because of course; the world needed that. The world needed peace. And abundant dialogue about peace. The other half of her cover was lovely too. In fact; all of her cover art; was simple; honest; personal; subtle or symbolic; enigmatic; meaningful; and beautiful!-By her; well. She and Miss Leni would be so pleased!
And she is; they were; deeply thoughtful wise young people and old ladies. At every age; people could be! You could tell by the peace; and by the curiosity and joy; that lay deep in someone's eyes. You could look at the eyes of a baby. You could see how they laugh. And how their eyes seemed to reflect; the huge wide possibility of the skies.-Of the humans; and the skies. Make no mistake about that.🎋
FIELD NOTES.
Paperback; 6x9; 53 pages.
Here was another dear small collection;
of obliquely linked short stories.🎋
of obliquely linked short stories.🎋
THAT IS; six small stories; in 53 gentle thoughtful pages. That would consider language; culture; connection; humanity.-In a world; and in a sudden political climate; that sadly put a jinx on all of that! But oh, dear! Thought poor Miss Margaux.-Oh; dear. As she tried to tuck the fear away.
And don't worry; she would tell you why. Because she loved to grouse about things like that! About gentle deeply human things. Because we shouldn't lose that; should we?-No. Because immigrants were not bogeymen! For one.
They were; in fact; really cool people! And foreign language was not the language of the devil.-No! Foreign language; of course; was a sort of cool delicious every-varying musical form; art form! But only if you had the ear to listen. And only if you had the human heart; and sufficient human brain; to listen. Which clearly not everyone did!
But just as we treasured and studied bird calls; and whale sounds. And how boring we would be! If we didn't honor human sounds too. If we didn't treasure and study and document and commemorate; human sounds too.🎋
THE LABYRINTH.
Paperback; 6x9; 117 pages.
Here is a lovely gentle dear small novella.
Of thirteen thoughtful chapters; and 117 pages.
THERE WAS ALWAYS an end
to a labyrinth; wasn't there?
Well; of course; there had to be! So let’s help this young impoverished immigrant schoolgirl; bravely work and study her own proud determined way through. And bravo; dear Leni-girl; bravo you! Because there was a LIFE to be lived once you were through! Though that dear Leni-girl; whatever life hit her with? She would make it through. She would make it through.🎋
THIS BOOK offers an excellent hard-won closure; to Leni's story that began in The Leaving.-As every young schoolgirl; of course; at some point; would have to do. (Though perhaps; leave some room for that.) Leave some time for that; some room for that! And with the dream of a holiday perhaps!
And a better life for EVERY girl!🎋
THE STORIES of these books; begun in the middle nineteen-seventies; and ended in the early nineteen-eighties; remain perhaps sadly relevant through any time. As the world is not; and was not; in case you hadn't noticed; always the most welcoming place; for a young woman to wander through all on her own. But you did what had to do!
Wasn't that the story; wasn't
that right? You just bravely did
what you had to do.🎋
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