Not Far From the Tree: Fictionalized Memoirs - Softcover

Gropper, Esther

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1418478113 ISBN 13: 9781418478117

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Inspired by acceptance of several articles about email correspondence with her three college students who chose colleges in different areas of the United States, Esther C. Gropper adapted the email to recollections of her own life experiences and then went beyond those boundaries into imaginative scenarios.She shared many intimate thoughts from her granddaughters who asked her to share her life experiences with them. They asked for counsel about their own dilemmas. Each was caught up in a contemporary perplexity that affects women seeking a career and good marriage. These awakened her won feelings and thoughts that she shared with them. A strong bond exists as a consequence.Events are placed in historic prospective which make the book a personal documentation of a changing society, of turbulent times. They are woven together by family ties and loyalties.

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About the Author

Esther C. Gropper, at 85 still an active writer, educator, lecturer, was a savvy woman of her times who used email long before it became a common communicative tool. When her granddaughters were pursuing career preparation in New Zealand, Brazil and Texas, they made her their confidante. Curious about her early life and decisions, they wanted to share experiences that led to the woman she became. She was their role model because the choices she had to make were parallel to theirs. Even women's liberation of her times, two decades past, was still a struggle in theirs. Her granddaughters shared intimate feelings, aspirations and frustrations. The bond created was trusting and firm.Esther, a woman of her times - changing times of mores affecting career choices, marriage, family, careers and most significantly, how to successfully juggle these aspects of a contemporary woman's life. Esther began to relive the experiences of childhood, romances, the liberated life, some of which she shared with her granddaughters. Some took off in fantasies. What evolved is a composite of an emancipated empowered woman that left the lingering questions: Was it worth it?The result is the fictionalized memoirs of Not Far From The Tree.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1418478113
• ISBN 13: 9781418478117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292