Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: The Write Place
ISBN-10: 098580775X
Type: Fiction
Pages: 242
Copyright: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780985807757
Price: $5.79 (eBook)
TOO MUCH LEFT UNSAID is the story of two ordinary women in midlife living in a small Ohio town, in the turbulent mid-1960s.
KATHERINA (KATHY) HUMMEL CONNORS wants only to live an independent life, unencumbered by men or children.
MATILDA (MATTIE) MCENROE CONNORS wants to be the best wife and mother ever.
TOO MUCH LEFT UNSAID is the story of these two women living in Parkersville, Ohio, in the mid-1960s while the world erupts around them: racial strife, war in Vietnam, strip mining in the Ohio hills, free love, women's liberation, personal illness, and family disintegration threaten both their dreams. Can they accommodate the changes and succeed in reaching fulfillment?
Excerpt
Chapter 1
Mattie, July 21, 1969
I'm so glad we got to watch the moon landing together. We'll remember this date forever, won't we? July 21, 1969. A man, an American, is on the moon. We saw it right here on the television in my living room. I think we've been sitting spellbound for over two hours. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Imagine what Commander Armstrong must have been thinking as he made that descent. The Eagle has landed! We'll probably see it replayed over and over for years to come.
Come on into the dining room and have some of my Perfection Salad with lime Jell-O, carrots, and cabbage like Aunt Susan used to. I'll fix us sandwiches with the cheese pimento spread I made yesterday. There's so much to talk about now that you are here.
You must be wondering about everything that happened here. I've always loved telling stories, but there is so much I have never told to anyone before. Lately it's the parts of the story that have never been told that have been weighing on my heart. So many broken lives, so many dreams unfulfilled, so many surprises God has revealed. So much left unsaid. If you were to read my journals you would not see much written down there. You'd see notes on the weather and what I fixed for meals. I recorded if we had taken a drive or I'd gone to a church meeting.
I believed for a long time that everything in my world was as it should be, but so much was missing.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
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