In this first in a series of four novels featuring the interplay of private lives and public events, Mia Arceneau, bubbly daughter of a vigorously idealistic physician and an outspoken country midwife, grows up in an iconic early-20th century America. Meeting a brainy but impulsive young man from a prominent family sparks in the fanciful mountain girl an infatuation propelling her from the remote Adirondacks to Boston’s privileged Beacon Hill. Following America’s entry into World War I, Mia keeps her promise to a compelling soldier and moves to a boisterous neighborhood of Irish immigrants. After enduring devastating losses in a lethal wartime epidemic, Mia experiences motherhood, and then finds passion with an audacious charmer. During the exuberant 1920’s, hardscrabble ’30’s, and an ominous prewar period, Mia's ripening sensuality and deepening insight foreshadow a radiant attachment.

True North: Four Generations Volume I Mia

Literature & Fiction

King, Judith Slawson

Women's Fiction

RIVER BEND PRESS

Learning in early adolescence that the debonair bootlegger-cum-innkeeper is not her biological father, Mia’s precocious daughter develops a fierce self-reliance. In the midst of the apprehension and controversy simmering in prewar America, Josie studies to be a nurse and becomes romantically involved, first with a disillusioned cowboy veteran of foreign battlefields, and then with a cultivated refugee surgeon obligated elsewhere.  An army nurse remaining in Europe after World War II, Josie breaks a powerful taboo with a biracial expatriate writer in the exhilarating ambience of postwar Paris. Returning to America in the complacency of the late 1950s, she boldly combines marriage and motherhood with medical school.   A decade later, Josie’s family is unraveling as cultural explosions are transforming America. She strives for the strength to assume a significant role in an emergent women’s movement while her marriage hangs in the balance.

Heritage Road: 20th Century Family Saga (Book II Josie: Windblown Woman)

Title: GETTING OLDER

Hal Scholle

RUSH

Mansfield, Jayme

United States

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