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KUDOS!
“My People's Park” was Second Place winner of “The Times They Were A'Changin': Women Remember the 60s and 70s” memoir writing contest. Look for the story in an anthology of memoirs coming from She Writes Press in August, 2013.
A Time to Cast Away Stones was selected out of hundreds of submissions in General Fiction for Honorable Mention in each of these competitions:
Los Angeles Literary Festival
Great Northwest Literary Festival
Southern California Literary Festival
Selected for presentation and/or excerpts in:
o Dragon My Feet
o J – Jewish News Weekly
First Edition/Prose
o Midwestern Review
1060s, 1968, Berkeley, Paris 1968
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n A Time to Cast Away Stones, Elise Frances Miller catapults the late 1960s beyond media stereotypes that have inflamed opinions of the era for decades. This powerful novel tells the story of Janet Magill, a shy, straight-arrow Berkeley freshman with compelling reasons to join the antiwar movement. Janet’s brother has been shipped off to Vietnam, and Aaron Becker, her childhood sweetheart, might well be next. When Janet’s parents banish her from Berkeley to what they expect will be a safe, idyllic springtime in Paris, she runs headlong into the 1968 May Revolution and along the way, falls in love with a secretive Czech dissident. 1060s, 1968, Berkeley, Paris 1968
The story brings to life the historical “Events of May,” in which over ten million French citizens were involved in the only student-worker-bourgeois alliance and true “revolution” that a Western, capitalist democracy had ever experienced. Far from the distant and haunting City of Light, Aaron makes plans to evade the draft and join Janet, then follows her journey through an intense and embattled correspondence. He witnesses the wrenching, transforming exploration of Janet's capacity for love, responsibility and sacrifice, then loses contact as her "safe" year abroad turns into a dangerous coming of age. May Revolution, historical novel
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“As I am transported back to 1968, I remember shouting matches and lucid conversations, pitched battles and yet, thousands marching in such determined, eerie quiet that we heard footfalls on the paving stones.”
STONES compares the 1968 May Revolution with the 2011-2012 Occupy Movement, here.
STONES compares the 1968 May Revolution with the 2011-2012 Occupy Movement, here.
Listen to The Byrds, Janet Magill's favorite 60s musical group!
