Beyond Paradise
by Jane Hertenstein
Price: $3.99 USD. 40840 words.
Published on November 30, 2011. Fiction.
Louise Keller travels with her missionary family to the Philippines on the eve of Pearl Harbor. At first the country seems like paradise, but soon Louise and her family are captured by the Japanese and forced to live in internment camps.
Location: United States
Member Since: Nov. 10, 2011
Jane Hertenstein
Biography
Jane Hertenstein is the author of Home is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter Through a Young Girl’s Eyes (picture book), Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady (with Marie James), and Beyond Paradise (YA fiction). She has taught mini courses in memoir at the university level as well as seminars at Cornerstone Festival, Prairie School of Writing. Jane is listed on the Illinois Artists Roster. Roster Artists are certified by the Illinois Arts Council to work in public schools introducing young people to the arts. She lives in Chicago where she facilitates a “happening” critique group.
Where to find Jane Hertenstein online
Website: http://www.memoirouswrite.blogspot.com
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Books
Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady
by Jane Hertenstein
Price: $3.99 USD. 57900 words. Published on November 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
Tens of thousands of homeless people walk the streets, forgotten, yet each with their own story to tell. Marie James, a 69-year-old bag lady, and a frequent guest at an inner-city mission in Chicago, sat with Jane Hertenstein through the summer of 1995 and recorded this shocking and moving story of life filled with sorrow, loss, mental instability, and hope.
Price: $3.99 USD. 57900 words. Published on November 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
Tens of thousands of homeless people walk the streets, forgotten, yet each with their own story to tell. Marie James, a 69-year-old bag lady, and a frequent guest at an inner-city mission in Chicago, sat with Jane Hertenstein through the summer of 1995 and recorded this shocking and moving story of life filled with sorrow, loss, mental instability, and hope.