Cistern Secrets - Couverture souple

Jansen, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 143430258X ISBN 13 : 9781434302588

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

The story of the love of friends who form familial ties crossing over gender, race, and age. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the discovery of skeletal remains of two unknown persons on the property of one of the family members leads to a search for answers that unearth long-buried secrets and reveals heartbreaks long-wished forgotten. The story's main characters are Dora Langer Davis - the family matriarch and potato magnate; Twin Herbert - the mixed-race son of unwed parents and bearer of the family torch; and Sara Miller - the retired police forensic scientist who investigates and reveals many buried secrets. The story opens in 1995 when Sara relates the events of the cistern discovery to old friends who have come to visit her. In telling the story, she travels back and forth in time through the twentieth-century, revealing a mosaic of personalities and intrigue. Historic themes of gender and racial bigotry, Prohibition and bootlegging, economic survival during the Great Depression, and the loss of loved ones in World War II, are touched upon as the characters play out their roles.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jan Jansen is an urban historian and an educator. A member of the Organization of American Historians, Jan has done extensive research in twentieth-century American social history. She completed her Master's Degree in history with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her thesis is titled, Building a Garden City: Zion, Illinois, 1900-1960.Jan grew-up in Zion, Illinois and has studied the rich local history of the city and surrounding Chicago-land area. She graduated from Zion-Benton Township High School in 1970. The Jansen-side of her family emigrated from Prussia in the mid-nineteenth-century and settled in Milwaukee.Cistern Secrets is Jan's first attempt at writing fiction. All of her previous writings have been non-fiction including articles for Michigan's Hooks & Bullets magazine. An avid outdoors person, Jan enjoys fly-fishing and upland bird hunting. She has made the Upper Peninsula of Michigan her home since 1980.The characters and places in Cistern Secrets are a compilation of people she has known or read about in doing historical research. The war veterans, Sara, Jill, and Rhonda are loosely based on her own life-long friends from her Air Force experience during the Viet-Nam Era.Jan lives in Iron County, Michigan with her Yellow Labrador Retriever, Jessica.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143430258X
• ISBN 13: 9781434302588
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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