Olive Payne Smith is from a rural community in South Central Virginia; Jean Obatala is from a village in the country of Cote d'Ivoire. The young idealists meet in France where they discover their common humanity. Ironically, after returning to their native countries, the far flung experience of freedom inhibits their living freely.
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Jill Winkowski has a B.A. in English and German from Mary Washington College and a M.Ed. from the University of Maryland. She is a freelance journalist and an ESL trainer.
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Beautiful Language, awesome writer,
This review is from: The Third Rail (Paperback)
Jill Winkowski's prose is also poetic. Here's a sample from Chapter 3: "The third rail becomes a long strip of red clay like the rich clay of Virginia. You can smell it. It smells like home. A sandy shore, a strip of beach. A split rail fence, a field being cleared, long lines of lumber. Past Baltimore, past Aberdeen, a gutter, broken bridges, a wild cat arching, broken trees, long steel pylons, flat and parallel." The story of Olive's journey is rich in imagery and Jill's narrative reads at times like poetry. This is a story of love, freedom, and hope. Reading The Third Rail is like being the guest in someone's life. We share the emotions and all the senses of important events as if we stood in the sun or felt the burst of air and heard the growing rumble of a passing train from the edge of the platform at a train station. This is a story of real people facing their truths and in truth, Jill's work is a success. Loved it. I look forward to Jill's next project.
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