Synopsis
The Button Box Saga consists of a trilogy of books. This is the third book in the series. In the first volume, a prologue and a number of “interludes” in each of the volumes served to introduce the family members and their stories. All interludes are told in the first person by the 4th generation’s Emily. The interludes also allow the reader to learn a bit about Emily’s own life. Her grandmother’s button box, full of “story buttons” from old family garments, is the vehicle through which each generation’s tale is begun. The first book started when 16-year-old Marya traveled to America alone to escape the turmoil which would become WWI. Sponsored by an avaricious cousin, Marya’s life in the Slavic section of Cleveland, Ohio was not an easy one. She didn’t think she’d survive without her younger cousin Sophie. The two girls shared most of their trials and triumphs, joys and pain. Marya entered into an arranged marriage and had a daughter, Josie. Sophie got secretarial training and was hired by a law firm. The dramas of their lives were set against the background of the Home Front during WWI, the fight for Women’s Suffrage, and the Roaring Twenties. The first book also introduced Marya’s daughter, Josie. It showed her to be a bit spoiled and mischievous during her childhood. After her family moved from Cleveland to Sandusky, Josie was unhappy and longed to return to Cleveland and her best friend, Mary. But whenever she did visit, she ended up in trouble. After the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression, Josie felt completely boxed in, unable to go away to college, or even to visit in Cleveland. So at age 17, she eloped with a local farm boy, Art Bransen. She became pregnant very quickly. Life on Art’s farm was not what she expected from married life, to say the least. And then her beloved father died and her mother moved back to Cleveland. Josie felt both grief-stricken and abandoned. She thought if she wasn’t married and pregnant, she could stay with her mother in Cleveland. While there for her father’s funeral, she tried to bring on a miscarriage, but failed. Afterward, she felt enormous guilt and vowed to return to the farm and make a go of things with Art and his family. Book Two detailed Josie’s life with Art and his family and the dramatic events that caused her to permanently move back to Cleveland. It then continued her story as she got a job and faced the difficulties of living in the Depression, and also being a divorced woman during that era. She also faced the more positive dilemma of deciding between two young men with whom she formed relationships. The story continued with her life during WWII, and the difficulty she shared with all young women of that time whose men were at war. It also introduced her daughter, Becky and the main issue she will be facing as the saga continues in Book Three. Josie and her husband feel that Becky is fearful of becoming an adult because of living through the Depression and a World War, but also because of personal traumas she suffered as a child, such as a bout with polio, from which she did, luckily, recover. In this final book in the trilogy, Becky goes off to college to prove to her parents that she really does have a vocation for the religious life, and that she isn’t just trying to escape from life. But after a tragedy befalls her family, Becky decides to do as her parents had encouraged all along, to engage life. Unfortunately, she enters into a relationship that is just as much an escape from reality as her previous wish to be a nun. This book describes the ups and downs of Becky’s adult life. It also gives the story of her daughter, Emily, who has been the narrator of all three books.
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Button Box Three: Button Box Saga - 1948 to 1980
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 358 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.90 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur zk1522071180
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