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Burning of the Marriage Hat
by Margaret Benshoof-Holler
ISBN-10: 0-9714473-2-2ISBN-13: 978-0-9714473-2-5
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"The Italian musical term ‘ostinato’ - a phrase or motif repeated rhythmically over and over - describes the presence of the Wyoming cowboy very precisely and creates something musical in the structure of this novel." –San Francisco Artist Rafael Landea (Complete Review)
We're at a time when Roe v. Wade is being threatened and we could be back in the times that Margaret is writing about in her book. --Denny Smithson on "Cover to Cover," KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA
"The stigma that was placed on unwed mothers in the 60s spiraled into a lot of secrecy that followed these women throughout their lives." --Emily Elfenbein, WBEB 101-FM, Philadelphia, PA "The Women's File."
"The denial of the existence of the problem of a pregnant teen, a theme in this book, is also a theme in life--an extremely interesting book." --Susan Franzblau, PhD, host of "Women's Voices, Women's Lives" on NPR affiliate WFSS 91.9 FM, Fayetville, NC.
"I found the narrator Katherine a thoroughly credible character. I believed in her and followed her eagerly through her travail, her search and discovery and respected the way she came through. The way the author handled time helped move the story and kept me reading. This work put me on the ground in Wyoming, a place I'd only read about." --Adam David Miller, San Francisco Bay Area Poet (Neighborhood and Other Poems, Forever Afternoon (Winner Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award), Apocalypse is My Garden Land Between, New and Selected Poems, and Dices ir Black Bones, an Anthology. )
"This was a wonderful book! It was beautifully written. The writer grabbed my attention by switching back and forth through time. I would recommend this book to everyone! --Barnes & Noble review
"I found this book totally engrossing. The author's mixture of the past and the present is very well done and she succeeds in portraying many characters in a truly enlightening manner. I especially appreciated her appealing descriptions of the Wyoming scenery." --BookExpo review
"This is a spell-binding and most poignant tale of a woman's search for the daughter she lost to adoption and the secrets she uncovers along the way. A very true to life portrayal of a large segment of women who relinquished children to adoption." -- Joe Soll, CSW, author of Adoption Healing... a path to recovery, co-author of Adoption Healing... a path to recovery for mothers who lost children to adoption.
"Strong character roles. Strong women. An intriguing novel! A great story for a feature movie." --Lorie & Julia, the Lorie & Julia Show, FM 107 WFMP Radio, St. Paul, MN
"A generational tale deftly written with penetrating insight, personality and feeling, Burning Of The Marriage Hat is very highly recommended reading and would make an exceptional selection choice for women's reading groups. Set in the Wyoming of the late 1990s and laced with memories of an earlier era, Burning of the Marriage Hat: A Novel of High Plains Women by Margaret Benshoof-Holler is the attention engaging story of a young woman who travels to lay her grandmother's ghost to rest and to understand the genesis of her own ambivalence toward men. She learns of how women who became pregnant out of wedlock were once treated and what it meant to come of age in Wyoming in the 1960s." --The Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch
"Burning of the Marriage Hat is a powerful book that uses the medium of fiction to explore serious social issues."Cynthia Parkhill, Lake County Record-Bee
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"The characters are real and the plot has a lot of 'what happens next?' The narrator Katherine comes to terms with a society which oppressed and dehumanized women by freeing the ghosts of her past." --Jane Edwards, Book Review Editor, CUB Communicator (Concerned United Birth Parents) Complete Review
"Burning Of The Marriage Hat brings back memories of my childhood growing up in Wyoming. I could almost feel the prairie wind whipping against my legs as I read it. The book is a compelling novel about growing up in the 1960s in a middle class family in a small prairie town in Wyoming. It describes the narrow-minded lifestyle one can encounter there. This novel begs to be read in one sitting. It is definitely a good read."
--Amazon.com review
Adoption / Family History / the West /
Trade paperback, 8 1/2 X 5 1/2, 381 pages
ISBN: 0-9714473-2-2
LCC#: 2001095609
$14.95
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