Books+to+Consider

From Kate:
==Maceo Montoya’s The Scoundrel and the Optimist.,“In The Scoundrel and the Optimist we meet Edmund, …whose magnificent strength of spirit makes him … determined to win the heart of Ingrid Genera and to become a great guitar player. But his most notable accomplishment is [showing] his abusive father the value of integrity and optimism. Edmund ultimately teaches his father that love is mightier than fists and is worth great sacrifice” (Amazon.com).==

From Donna:

 * ==Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett==
 * ==Women: Fit at Fifty, a Guide for Long Living by Mary Kathryn Macklin==
 * ==A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich==

"Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility."
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