Linger Not At Chebar
A novel of love and war in Burma
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About the Book
A young American woman joins her missionary husband in an exotic and alien land. While she copes with burning heat, monsoons, strange customs and her own inadequacies, she tries to win the love of her seemingly indifferent husband.
Then the Japanese invade Burma and Charity Phillips finds her life and that of her children depend on a mysterious durwait named Ba Than.Based on real life experiences.
About the Author
Barbara Fitz Vroman's previous novels, Tomorrow Is a River (co-authored with Peggy Hanson Dopp) and Sons of Thunder, were both recipients of The Milwaukee Journal Leslie Cross Award presented by The Council of Wisconsin Writers. She teaches writing at The Rhinelander School of Arts, The Clearing at Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, and other seminars. Her most recent book is Small Celebrations, an account of her life as a truck driver's wife in rural Wisconsin