Frank and Marian Robertson would tell you there's noeasy answer. Love, yes, but more than that--a willingnessto be guided by love, to be changed by it... If Frank andMarian have a secret, that's it. When they met in 1929, they realized they weredestined to spend the rest of their lives together.However, wanting a life together and making one aretwo different things. And the obstacles they faced--parental disapproval, even tragedy--sometimes seemedtoo much to bear. But through it all, Frank and Marianshared a love that ...
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Frank and Marian Robertson would tell you there's noeasy answer. Love, yes, but more than that--a willingnessto be guided by love, to be changed by it... If Frank andMarian have a secret, that's it. When they met in 1929, they realized they weredestined to spend the rest of their lives together.However, wanting a life together and making one aretwo different things. And the obstacles they faced--parental disapproval, even tragedy--sometimes seemedtoo much to bear. But through it all, Frank and Marianshared a love that's lasted, a love that affects everyone in their family, right down to their great-granddaughterHannah. She's busy planning their seventy-fifth weddinganniversary, and is doing some digging into her family'spast, her family's stories. Stories that explain whatshaped her family...
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4.5 Stars: A romance told like family stories are told
FAMILY STORIES is a romance of a long marriage begun just as the Depression nears. Although the form is literarily more complex than many romances, I found it intriguing because it is the way most readers get to know real life love stories---through family stories. Marion and Frank Robertson are about to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. Despite trials and tribulations, their marriage survives the everyday irritations, the Depression and even personal tragedies. Why? The only way to discover the answer is to know the story of their love and marriage. The only way to know their marriage is to know the story of the family surrounding and built by their marriage.
Tessa McDermid tells the story of Frank and Marion's marriage by creating vignettes of the couple, their children and their grandchildren. These snapshots are brought together when Hannah, the grandchild, discovers some family snapshots and remembers family stories. Why does her grandmother refuse a celebration, even a small one, to celebrate their everlasting marriage? When no one will tell her why, she turns to family stories to ferret out the secret. Some secrets are not easily decipherable except through family stories and history.
The literary form is a bit different than a straight timeline plot or a typical romance. Instead, the reader see vignettes and together they add up to the portrait of a marriage and a family. Sometimes a marriage is best understood by looking at more than the hero and heroine but also the whole family. I liked it. This is how I experienced my own family's stories --- in bits and pieces and vignettes. This romance might inspire the imagination of readers, like it did to me, to rethink family stories as a whole romance instead of incomplete stories of disjointed individuals.
