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- Garfield's Train
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- Author: Feather Schwartz Foster
- Reviewer: Rita Porter
- Publisher: PublishAmerica, Baltimore
- Format: Adult, Fiction, E-Book, 226 Pages, 2005, $19.95
- ISBN: 1413769152
- Rating: * * * * Quills
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- Katherine Louise decides it is time to write down her family's archives; she wants the next generation to know their roots. At the age of seventy-nine, her memory is still sharp. She recalls the train ride with her grandmother Katherine for the last visit with Molly Brown, her childhood best friend and the children's godparent.
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- Once the train was underway, Katherine began to get to know her namesake better as she was drawn deep into the tale she was being told. Her grandmother had an amazing life. As a student of journalism, Katherine found the history of her grandmother coming to life with the words, almost being able to picture how it must have been.
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- Katherine was shocked to find out the truth behind Molly Brown. She was astonished she never had a clue about all that her grandmother had accomplished in her life, nor the treasures she held on to. Her grandmother's memory was filled with many notable famous people, including General Grant, General Sherman and President Garfield. What was most shocking to Katherine was the tie between Molly Brown, President Garfield, the Women's Suffrage Movement and her grandmother.
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- Within the common ground of a namesake, the two Katherines' characters interact with an openness that grandmothers around the world would wish to cultivate with their own grandchildren given the opportunity. The love between the two grows as they spend the time getting to know and to share Grandmother Katherine's long life. The uncles, portrayed within the pages, will remind the reader of the hilarity or seriousness of family interactions when all are together.
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- With a poignant touch, Feather Schwartz Foster has brought to life the part of family history we would value. Well-turned phrases, attention paid to details, and the added bonus of period fashions adds to the overall family and personal values shown with in Garfield’s Train. Painting the historical political time and the effects it has on a family on the fringes, grants us insight into the possibilities of how life was then.
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- Garfield’s Train is a very touching read, with lighthearted moments to spare the reader from being bogged down by an unknown family's history. This story has all the good aspects of a general book with romance, suspense and shock, and closure for all the characters involved.
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