From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:07:00 -600

Thanks, Bridget, for sharing with us what you found out about Frances Temple. She was a remarkable woman whose books were informed by a wealth of personal concerns and experiences. If you are especially interested in Haiti, you will also want to read Temple's book
"Tonight, By Sea," which deals with one family's perilous escape from Haiti. As my colleague Ginny Moore Kruse commented in her review of
"Tonight By Sea," the drama and compassion of Frances Temple's prose takes readers beyond the headlines, straight to the hearts of the people whose faces we see on the eveing news.

Earlier in the week, Melody Allen commented on "The Ramsay Scallop," the story of a 14-year-old girl making a religious pilgrimage from England to Spain in 1299. On the surface, this would seem to be about as far away from a story set in contemporary Haiti as one could get, and yet, has anyone noticed any similarities between Temple's contemporary novels and her novels set in the Middle Ages?

KT Horning, CCBC UW-Madison
Received on Thu 27 Jun 1996 11:07:00 AM CDT