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“…I
was a writer. I could tell the story of Faye and Clyde Tatum, and of
their daughter, Barb, and the little girl down the street…”
World-renowned journalist G.G. Gilman does her best not to think of
the past. But one day she gets a letter—sent from the small Oklahoma
town where she grew up—that brings it all back: memories of people
she had once known and loved dearly, and of the sultry summer when her
life changed forever. Letter from Home works on multiple levels.
It is a mystery, a poignant fictional memoir, and a portrait of an American
small town during World War II.
Reviews "A
persistent sense of loss and longing accounts for the bittersweet tone
of Carolyn Hart's Letters from Home. Set in a small-town America
that lives only in memory, this artfully narrated whodunit observes
the residents of an unnamed Oklahoma hamlet over the hot and dusty summer
of 1944 as they ration their food, count their war dead and turn on
their neighbors." Hart
has created a fabulous two-in-one: an excellent mystery and the poignant
memoirs of her heroine, Gretchen Grace Gilman. The obviously well-researched
history draws the reader into this atypical whodunit. Characters are
Steinbeck vivid, as is the sense of time and place. Hart masterfully
portrays an American small town during WWII. Return to Letter from Home Links
About the Author Carolyn Hart's novels have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, proving she is a master of the mystery genre. Her book Sugarplum Dead won the 2000 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction. In 2004, the Oklahoma Center for the Book honored her with the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She lives in Oklahoma City, and is one of the founders of Sisters in Crime. Visit Carolyn Hart's website. Return to Letter from Home Links
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