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Rose

By: Christine Keleny, Earl Keleny (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 31 March 2007

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436 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 2.46

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Rose - a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin - runs away from home to avoid going onto high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. ------------------------------------------------------- Rose is thrown into the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi while working on river boats, going to a prep school in St. Louis where she lives with a black family in the Ville, and working in a bordello in New Orleans (not as a call girl, of course. She is a Catholic girl from the Midwest after all). What she doesn't anticipate are the close relationships that develop with many of the women she encounters. She also discovers the harshness of the world far away from the security of home. Ultimately, Rose realizes what is most important in her life: her family and her friends. ------------------------------------------------------- Rosebloom takes place at a time in history that buffets Rose between the great depression and the coming wave of World War II. She gets herself into situations through her naivete and also just by chance that test her resolve and teach her not only about herself but about the world of others which she would have never know if she hadn't left her small farm in Southwest Wisconsin."

Industry Reviews

Library Journal “Recommended” Rosebloom saying: “Keleny details her journey and the myriad of character…in an entertaining and enjoyable way.”

Judges from the 2008 IPPY award called Rosebloom “A wonderful portrait of life on the river....” “Rose is a female Huckleberry Finn.” Of the author; “(Christine is) A soulful and lively writer.”

Midwest Book Review referred to it as“...an excellent blend and deftly written look at 1930s America in between the Great Depression and the second Great War – highly recommended for fans of coming of age fiction....”

Independent Book Publishers Award Judges:
"A soulful and lively writer. Rose is a female Huckleberry Finn."

"A well-told and entertaining mutli-racial tale and coming-of-age story."

A wonderful portrait of life on the river. The author develops her characters well and makes the reader care about them and their fates."

"Dear Christine, I began reading Rosebloom right away and have been engrossed in the story since. You captured my interest early in the book at the time of the near rape of the innocent Rose…The history within your novel is amazing…You clearly did a lot of research and spent many weeks getting things just right. Very interesting!...Thanks again for sending me the book." - J.L., Stoughton, WI

"Dear Christine, On behalf of the P.D.C Women’s Civic Club I would like to thank you for your delightful program at our recent meeting. Telling us how your recent novel, "Rosebloom" came into being was fascinating. I have started to read "Rosebloom" and am enjoying Rose and her adventures immensely." - C.K., Prairie du Chien Women’s Club

"Dear Christine - I so enjoyed your book, Rosebloom, and was happy Mr. Mallat had suggested it for "a good read."…just read for the pure enjoyment of the beautiful story of Rose’s journey. Wouldn’t it make a lovely film?" - J.H., Madison, WI

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