Choices (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Lee Settle
- First Published: 1995
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Virginia, Family or family life, Self-discovery, South or Southerners, Women, Adoption or adopted children, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, Spanish Civil War, Spain or Spanish people, Louisiana
The Work
Choices, Mary Lee Settle’s thirteenth novel, begins and ends in April, 1993, on a small island off the coast of Italy. The protagonist, Melinda Kregg, is eighty-two years old. Her two adopted children, Maria, who escaped with her from Spain in 1938, and Aiken, an African American who fled Louisiana in 1964, have come to be with her on the last day of her life. Melinda faces the end cheerfully, satisfied with her life and with the identity she has developed for herself, as a political liberal and a woman who has made a difference in the troubled times through...
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