As young, passionate students in the same Harvard writing class, Susan Masters and Caleb Montiel make a pact: if either lives out a story too-emotionally intense to handl, they will give it to the other to write. But the turmoil of the Vietnam era separates them, even as their two stories begin to intertwine. Twenty years later, Susan, now a successful novelist, receives a box of journals, a record of Caleb''s social service on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following the devastation of Hurricane Camille - and of his secret, transforming love not only for the people and the place, but for Grace Chadwick, a beautiful young wife and mother, extraordinary and irresistible to Caleb. Susan embarks on writing Caleb's story - which mirrors the complicated shame the nation suffered during the Vietnam years - only to find it still entwines with her own.
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In The Assigned Visit, Susan, the naïve girl from the South meets Caleb, the yet-unformed young man from the Northeast. They become friends at Harvard while the angst-driven Vietnam War shapes their generation's values. Camille, the monster hurricane, outdone only by its evil twin Katrina, sweeps away a portion of Susan's beloved South and Caleb drifts from Susan's life. Twenty years later, they find each other because of a promise they made to write the story they could not write for themselves.
Verbal portraits are Shelley Fraser Mickle's forte. She transports her readers with the eye of an artist whose metaphors ring with reality. This story sticks in the heart of anyone who ever second-guessed a life altering decision and remains long after being put on the shelf for safekeeping Julie Eberhart Painter Florida
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Shelley Mickle is a fantastic writer. In "The Assigned Visit" she revisits the South of the 1960s. Her characters sparkle with a freshness not often found in today's literature. And her love story reads as topical as today's headlines. Seesawing back and forth from today and yesterday, Harvard and the Mississippi Gulf coast, "The Assigned Visit" is well worth the visit.
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a visit to one's past,
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A not-so-simple tale of unrequited love becomes an absorbing story of the late 60s. The author weaves the mood of those times with long-forgotten historical detail, a passionate love story, ominous plot lines and an unpredictable ending. Both the main and minor characters are well-drawn. Mickle uses an interesting literary device to write from a man's perspective as a woman. Much more than a beach read, but just as enjoyable.
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