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Unlike the previous reviewer, I've never met the author. But I feel like I went to school with her protagonist, and lived in that home town. Her characters are flawed, caring, snarky, superficial, kind, lazy, ambitious, giving, self-reliant, self-centered, brave, and liars -- in other words, they are carefully drawn and multi-faceted -- real people. The story carried me on like a swift-running creek, with something new just around each bend. Highly recommended.

BTW I read this on Kindle, and only found ONE typo in the whole book! Kudos to the editor/proofreader, as well as the author for caring about quality.


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A Place of Forgetting Carolyn J Rose 9780983735915 Books Reviews

This book is about growing up and about trust and appearances.
It's fast-paced, and there are so many screeching-to-a-halt, unexpected turns of events that it kept me on tenterhooks.
Each time I would think "oh, didn't see that one coming!" I never read another book by this author till now, but looking at reviews for the other books (crime mostly) it seems this one is much more joyful and positive, although the main character has her share of trouble to overcome and tough decisions to make...

Liz is your typical small town plain, intrinsically honest girl, a good daughter and grand-daughter who does her duty. This is the 60s, by the way, and women going to college or aiming at a "proper" career, or wearing jeans, are still not that common.
At the beginning of the story, Liz is fed up with her small town existence and authoritarian grand-mother.

Since her childhood sweetheart Ben has gone MIA in Vietnam, and a certain April girl has waltzed into town announcing her last-minute engagement to Ben, life has definitely taken a turn for the worst.

So, she decides to take off in pursuit of her dreams as a journalist student.
It so happens that she is burdened with April part of the way - the very girl who stole her fiancé. April's agenda is very different from Liz' on undertaking this road trip though, as Liz will discover.
Are they embarked on a fool's errand?

Liz ends up in another small town village where she is forced by circumstances to become more assertive and less naive.
She gets by as best as she can, sleeping in the barn of an unwelcoming old woman, washing herself outdoors and occasionnally fighting off ticks and pushy pretenders (not at the same time), keeping her spirit up all the way - for this is independance after all.
It is a coming of age story. You keep wondering how her journey to adulthood will turn out (I was rooting for her!)
This novel could be classified as Young Adult in that the protagonist is just nineteen, but it's meaty enough to be also literary women's fiction, and I certainly remember the 1960's as a teenager.

Nothing seems to be going right for Elizabeth as disappointments pile up one on top of the other; her dog dies, the young man she's loved all her life boards his flight to Vietnam where he becomes one of many MIA's, and then she's presented a note that she should help take care of the flighty young woman who claims to be his fiancé. All of it is too much and she flees in her rusty old car, "Buggy" for a better life in Chicago. But, nothing goes as anticipated. For one thing, the so-called fiancé decides she'll go along for the ride. Detours abound, until they reach a new and life-changing destination that will make all the difference to Elizabeth.

As a reader and a writer, I thought I knew how it was going to go, only to be delighted in the surprises. I don't want to do a run down on the events--the surpises along the way for any reader are too sweet to spoil, but let me say that this is one of the best fiction books I've read all year. It was delightful in its intensity, the development of the characters, and mostly in how Elizabeth comes into her own as a young woman.

I can see this novel as a really good subject for a college class. And, best of all, I believe that it's going to become a much loved favorite for many young women.
First, a disclosure I am a long-time friend of the author and I am in her dedication for this book. I am also a freelance book editor of over 20 years, unable to dismiss the urge to criticize or edit everything I read.

This is a special book, wonderfully written.

Few things can make Elizabeth Roarke's life worse Ben, her childhood best friend and presumed husband to be, is MIA in Vietnam, and a strange and unknown girl, April, flashes an engagement ring saying he proposed mere hours before his deployment. In A Forgetting Place, Carolyn J. Rose, author of An Uncertain Refuge, writes another stirring novel where nothing is as expected, for Elizabeth or for the reader. Her journey is our journey--fleeing from and fleeing toward change; fleeing from heartbreak toward impossible dreams; and fleeing from the ties that bind toward friendships freely chosen.

When her car and money are stolen, Elizabeth is stranded atop Stony Ridge, Arkansas, far from her safe, small-town life in Maplekill, New York. She must rely upon the taciturn good will of Delia, a spurned, now widowed, black woman left with a hardscrabble life on land that the good old boys might yank from under her. While starting her life anew as a reporter for a nearby town paper, Elizabeth grieves her loss of Ben. She plunges again and again into doubt and self-criticism, combing through memories that reveal no hint of anything but their love for one another.

When nature unleashes a storm with impartial fury, Delia taps into a greater, if not mysterious realm, foreseeing two lives in danger. Pitted against unforgiving outer and inner landscapes, Elizabeth and Delia join together, bringing out the best in one another, and meeting a future beyond all hopes and dreams.
Unlike the previous reviewer, I've never met the author. But I feel like I went to school with her protagonist, and lived in that home town. Her characters are flawed, caring, snarky, superficial, kind, lazy, ambitious, giving, self-reliant, self-centered, brave, and liars -- in other words, they are carefully drawn and multi-faceted -- real people. The story carried me on like a swift-running creek, with something new just around each bend. Highly recommended.

BTW I read this on , and only found ONE typo in the whole book! Kudos to the editor/proofreader, as well as the author for caring about quality.