This "marvelous memoir captures not only a time and place--growing up the daughter of Swedish immigrants in small-town Minnesota in the 1920s--but also the author'sown captivating spirit. . . ." Paulette Bates Alden
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"Edith Mucke is a fine writer. She details her memoir with a rich sense of family and history. I like Edith Mucke's words. Her writing lifts me to those places she writes about. It's her language I see when I read images like 'the dusty gravel road flared white hot and waves of heat rose from the yellow fields.' That's what her prose does for me." -- Diane Glancy, Author of Firesticks
"Edith Mucke's beautifully rendered memoir, Beginning in Triumph, is not only an engaging story of one woman's life, it is a penetrating look at the passage of the twentieth century in America. The narrative begins in 1879 in Malmo, Sweden, birthplace of her father, and ends in the 1980s, after her retirement as Director of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota. Mucke captures the essence of her immigrant parents' hopeful passages from Sweden to America and narrates with vigor and charm her own childhood in the small town of Triumph, Minnesota. When she leaves home at seventeen, the journey she embarks on mirrors the difficulties and transformations experienced by countless women during the ensuing decades." "Mucke writes with intelligence and grace. She creaes endearing portraits of her family and friends, and her perceptions of events, both personal and historical, are unfailingly accurate. I read this memoir with great enthusiasm." -- Mary Francois Rockcastle, author of Rainy Lake
"Edith Mucke's marvelous memoir captures not only a time and place--growing up the daughter of Swedish immigrants in small-town Minnesota in the '20s--but also the author's own captivating spirit, that of a woman who looks on life itself as a 'calling.' Reading Beginning in Triumph feels like spending time in the presence of a beloved, admirable friend." -- Paulette Bates Alden, author of Feeding the Eagles, Swimming, Snow
"Edith Mucke, granddaughter of Scandinavian stock and daughter of small-town mid-America, has written a memoir part history and part poetry. She writes from a heart as true as a midwestern sky and as authentic as the prairie of southern Minnesota, which was her first home. Her own life provides the strong narrative line, but we learn of the lives of many others--parents, husband, neighbors, teachers, friends. On journey with her, we catch visions of the affirming and hopeful spirit, which marked this heartland province throughout the course of the century. Readers will be informed and strengthened by her spirited account." -- Clarke Chambers, Professor of History, University of
"This wonderful book should attract many different kinds of readers, for it is many books in one. It is a quietly dramatic story, a valuable document about Minnesota culture and history, a delightful memoir, and an honest and loving account of what it meant to grow up, survive, and even thrive as an intelligent, sensitive woman in the American Midwest. Mothers will want to give Edith Mucke's memoir to their daughters, who can learn some of Edith's humerous and unpreachy lessons in wisdom, tolerance, and zest for life." -- Susan Allen Toth, author of Blooming, Ivy Days, and Love
"Edith Mucke's beautifully rendered memoir, Beginning in Triumph, is not only an engaging story of one woman's life, it is a penetrating look at the passage of the twentieth century in America. The narrative begins in 1879 in Malmo, Sweden, birthplace of her father, and ends in the 1980s, after her retirement as Director of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota. Mucke captures the essence of her immigrant parents' hopeful passages from Sweden to America and narrates with vigor and charm her own childhood in the small town of Triumph, Minnesota. When she leaves home at seventeen, the journey she embarks on mirrors the difficulties and transformations experienced by countless women during the ensuing decades." "Mucke writes with intelligence and grace. She creaes endearing portraits of her family and friends, and her perceptions of events, both personal and historical, are unfailingly accurate. I read this memoir with great enthusiasm." -- Mary Francois Rockcastle, author of Rainy Lake
"Edith Mucke's marvelous memoir captures not only a time and place--growing up the daughter of Swedish immigrants in small-town Minnesota in the '20s--but also the author's own captivating spirit, that of a woman who looks on life itself as a 'calling.' Reading Beginning in Triumph feels like spending time in the presence of a beloved, admirable friend." -- Paulette Bates Alden, author of Feeding the Eagles, Swimming, Snow
"Edith Mucke, granddaughter of Scandinavian stock and daughter of small-town mid-America, has written a memoir part history and part poetry. She writes from a heart as true as a midwestern sky and as authentic as the prairie of southern Minnesota, which was her first home. Her own life provides the strong narrative line, but we learn of the lives of many others--parents, husband, neighbors, teachers, friends. On journey with her, we catch visions of the affirming and hopeful spirit, which marked this heartland province throughout the course of the century. Readers will be informed and strengthened by her spirited account." -- Clarke Chambers, Professor of History, University of
"This wonderful book should attract many different kinds of readers, for it is many books in one. It is a quietly dramatic story, a valuable document about Minnesota culture and history, a delightful memoir, and an honest and loving account of what it meant to grow up, survive, and even thrive as an intelligent, sensitive woman in the American Midwest. Mothers will want to give Edith Mucke's memoir to their daughters, who can learn some of Edith's humerous and unpreachy lessons in wisdom, tolerance, and zest for life." -- Susan Allen Toth, author of Blooming, Ivy Days, and Love
From the Publisher
Edith Mucke is a wonderful woman. Her spirit and courage are amazing. This story is a most charming memoir of growing up in Minnesota.
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