Claudine Fisher

Call Me Carole Claudine Fisher

A young woman named Judith, aka Carol or Carole, depending on her age and moods, finds her true love during the Second World War, moves from the windy city of Chicago to the Pacific Northwest where she settles as a married woman in a house among fir trees to pursue her teaching career. Meanwhile her husband creates a small bamboo grove in their back garden before his health condition worsens. As in an impressionist painting, touches after touches, we discover Carole's surprising destiny and what each of the three men in her life brings to her personality. Instead of evoking 19th century France and its colonies as in her trilogy of 'The Reluctant Paris Rebel, ' 'Southbound French Settlers' and 'The Breton Black Foot, ' Claudine Fisher sets her latest novel in the U. S., from 1938, through WWII, the 1980s' and 1990s', to modern day. In 'Call me Carole' the heroine remains connected to France thanks to her grandmother's roots, her French language teaching at the university, her wild imaginings and personal idiosyncrasies