Fiction

The Novel About half way through and I am liking it.

The book is centered on personalities in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and it details the process of novel building from writer to editor, to critic and to reader.

My Grandmother's family left that part of the country and she was born in a wagon on the way to California in the 1880s. It is very interesting that I have learned where some of the words and phrases she used came. Although the family had been in the US for decades before leaving Pa., my Grandmother learned English in grammar school. I think that I have pretty much figured out that the family must have been Mennonite, although I always knew her as Baptist, which was my Grandfather's faith. The remarkable woman lived to be 104 and was caring for an old maid daughter, in my Grandmother's home when she became ill and died. She was never sick until two weeks before she died.

It is interesting what truths can be learned from well written fiction.