Sainte Lillian's Missouri
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All things considered, the doctors did a fine piece
of work. They fixed his broken leg
bones and arm bones as best they could.
Not that he would ever use them.
Now, he was like a lukewarm vegetable, just lying there day after day after day. He could breathe on his own but that was all he could do on his own. It hurt old Johnny B. down deep inside to think about everything his boy couldn’t do.
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Millie never told the story. Mrs. Rose did one May day to a packed and
silent church. And it spilled over, out
the open windows into the hushed crowd outdoors.
Millie could tame wild people and wild animals as
easily as the rest of us breathe.
Usually, she took them on one at a time, but one Saturday in late
spring, she was confronted with a double header. That is still a story the men of Sainte Lillian’s love to tell.
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About the Book
A coming of age novel about three sisters and a
beautiful town in the Missouri Ozarks,
(on the map in the author’s mind, somewhere near Sainte Genevieve, near
the Mississippi River but sheltered by the Ozarks.) “Sainte Lillian’s Missouri” embraces the years 1942-1957.
As America joins the allies in World War Two, change
begins to creep into a pastoral way of life.
Aftermath of the war shows a world, a country, a small town and a family
face to face with a new world order.
White superiority and black servitude were
established and comfortable roles in mid-America and the South until the end of
the war. Returning servicemen, both black and white brought new ideas home.
Suddenly, equality and freedom were no longer words in history books. Spilled
blood had changed lives forever.
How the little town of Sainte Lillian’s, Missouri,
and three sisters face these challenges is the heart of the story and, a story
that warms the heart.
The character, Sainte Lillian, the town of Sainte
Lillian’s and all its people are a work of fiction. and as such are a blending
of personalities and places encountered by the author; and, in no way resemble
anyone living or dead.
About the Author
Elizabeth Anne (Betsy) Rogers is the pen name of a
63-year-old Missouri native who left her work as a Navy journalist and came to
Michigan with her husband to raise three children.
Now divorced and a cancer survivor, Rogers divides
her time between her church, her family, her OA group, her travels and many
other interest. And she finds everything interesting.
She says she found cancer an inconvenience. “
Interesting, and material for a book, but an inconvenience. I’m too busy for
pity parties.” She added. Rogers said
she learned this approach to cancer from her mother, and brothers Jim and Sam
and sister-in-law Sheila who also live with cancer and live with gusto.
Rogers states she loves every minute of the writing
process Even the rewriting.