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With great sadness....

Charlotte Zoe Walker passed away on January 1, 2021.

Her obituary is posted here and can be downloaded from the button at the bottom of the page.

Memorial contributions can be made to the John Burroughs Association in support of the literary awards or the nature sanctuary. 

http://johnburroughsassociation.org.

Announcing...

The Girl Who Talked In Accents

Recently published, this is a charming book of stories about a young woman's life in the  1950s. Six stories depict the life of a shy girl who loves to read.
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Now available. Just US $15.00 with FREE domestic shipping.

Order direct from the family via email or mail (see contact page for info). Payment accepted via PayPal.  Also on Amazon.

CONDOR AND HUMMINGBIRD

 

It is the summer of 1963, with stories of past political violence in Colombia and hints of the coming assassination of JFK in the United States. Laura, a young North American woman, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband Andres and their two small children, though strange, seemingly mystical messages have warned her not to. Conversations with her husband’s “mad” sister Francisca, and Señor Vargas, a revolutionary jewelry maker who lives in the dismal hotel run by Andres’s mother, help Laura come to grips with the problems of poverty and "lost children" in her husband’s country. Realizing how little she and Andres know one another, and how little she knows herself, Laura builds an alliance with Francisca to rescue the tiny, bird-like Carmen, a dwarfed servant child, one of Colombia's lost children. But “La Violencia” is not yet ended. In a tale of dramatic change and shocking discovery, Condor and Hummingbird explores both social and psychological issues, while it also looks back to the wisdom of ancient myths, and Francisca’s beloved “ancestors”-- the elusive Kogi of Santa Marta, who long ago retreated high into the Sierra to preserve their culture from the Spanish conquest.

"A COMPELLING AND PASSIONATE NOVEL about a woman's discovery that the most foreign country is within."  Alice Walker  

 

A SMALL REVOLUTION. . . .Laura finds in herself a new determination to overcome the obstacles of these

dire circumstances, not by forging the violent revolution that she and her husband once fantasized, but a "small revolution." It would begin with . . . three women, three sisters, and it would be founded in love.  

Ana Castillo, San Francisco Chronicle

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