Archive for April 4th, 2008
“In her rich and heartfelt sophomore novel, Ewen (Walk Back the Cat) bases the story line on her grandmother’s life as a missionary’s wife in the 1920s in what is now Thailand. Barbara is a gifted opera protégé who gives up her dreams when she marries Harvey Perkins, a medical doctor bound for Siam. Feeling [...]
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The Compulsive Reader calls “The Moon in the Mango Tree” Interesting and Totally Captivating
It’s 1919 and a young bride questions herself as to whether or not she has made a mistake to come to Siam with her doctor husband. The author, Pamela Binnings Ewen, tells a beautiful story in The Moon In The Mango Tree, a fictionalized version of her grandmother’s life. Starting in Philadelphia it takes us [...]
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This book [The Moon in the Mango Tree] is riveting, and an interesting study of a woman finding herself. I thought she ignored many chances to find some fulfillment and be happier, tho. Yes she ran into obstacles in Nan because of the stern people she encountered but I think a stronger woman would have [...]
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Living at the peak of the women’s movement in the Roaring Twenties, Barbara is torn between following her dreams to study and perform opera and her love for a man. Choosing her love leads her to the other side of the world to the jungles of Siam where her husband serves as a missionary doctor [...]
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