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 | Four Summers Waiting by Mary Fremont Schoenecker | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Five Star
http://www.gale.com/fivestar/ ISBN: 1594144753 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Historical Release date: Jul 2006 Format: Hardcover Pages:247 Price: $26.96 | |||
| In 1860 on Long Island, father and daughter Horatio and Maria Onderdonk continue to mourn the loss of his wife, her mother who died the previous year. However, Maria is ready to move on; so when her best friend, Carolyn Grisham, invites her to attend an Abolitionist Sunday meeting, she agrees to go. At the session, Maria meets zealous abolitionist Henry Simms, a medical student who works on the Underground Railroad; they are attracted to one another and correspond afterward, as he returns to school and she to her Evergreen Park, Long Island, home.
As Henry prepares to open up his medical practice, war breaks out between the states. He joins the Union as a contract surgeon; Carolyn becomes a nurse; and Maria struggles to find a way to help the Northern cause over the objection of her father who opposes the war and the freeing of the slaves. Letters between Henry and Maria serve as her solace, as she lives vicariously through the doctor she loves until she decides she has had enough inactivity and heads to DC to assist her Henry. Mary Fremont Schoenecker provides a fascinating novel of historical fiction with a romantic subplot that enhances the readers' understanding of motives and relationships. The storyline focuses on the difference of opinions toward the abolitionist movement in the north; as some like Horatio consider them terrorists, while Henry deems the conductors as human rights heroes. Using letters to move the story forward is clever, but it is the insight into how various people feel about freeing the slaves that makes for an captivating Civil War drama. | |||
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