Maura (CLU) Gallagher
DARBY'S ROAD
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HELLO!
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My name is Maura Gallagher
. . . some call me "CLU"
I am a self-published novelist who enjoys writing stories about immigrants to the United States of America during various times in the country's history. My stories are fiction and do not portray real life immigrants, although some of the readers have commented that the novels read as true stories. I have always loved History and Storytelling and in my writings I have set the story into the framework of the events of the times in which my imaginary immigrants had lived. I invite you to explore my website to read more about me and my work by clicking on the bars in the Heading as well as those on the Left Side bar. I have highlighted my most recently published novel, ANEW below and the current one that I am working on publishing, DARBY'S ROAD. You will find much more information about each on the pages of the website. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, I encourage you to contact me using the direct link to my email on the contact page. Looking forward to hearing from you,
Maura/CLU
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Immigrants to America "THE GREAT MELTING POT OF THE WORLD"
ANEW
THE SCATTERED SEEDS SERIES
Volume I
MAURA (CLU) GALLAGHER
Edition: Two
PUBLISHED: 6 MARCH 2013
Although born at different times during the tumultuous Twentieth Century, war had changed two women's lives, causing each to become an immigrant to the United States of America. Sophie Simon, born 'Sofia Gunther' in Germany in 1919, had once been the wife of the neighborhood police officer, turned Nazi, Felix Fuerst. She had run away from him and the evils of The Third Reich in 1944, a flight that had shattered her life, causing her to begin ANEW in America. Janene McDeenon, once known as 'Binh-Ly Tai', the orphaned daughter of a Vietnamese woman and an African American soldier, had come to America in infancy, adopted by an American couple.
Sophie, now eighty-nine and in ill health, wants to bury all remaining connections to her roots and has willed that the last remaining relic of her German heritage, an old tattered quilt belonging to her beloved Oma, should be buried with her – until she meets Janene, who wants desperately to find the secrets of her beginnings in South Vietnam and fears that she has waited far too long. Read how that old quilt becomes the unifying link to secrets of the past and the foundation for the future.
This is an Excerpt from ANEW, the first volume in the new collection of novels, The Scattered Seeds Series. The readers meet Corporal James Robinson, an American soldier who is doing his duty by serving in the jungles of South Vietnam. It is 1972 outside an army base, not far from Saigon. While standing guard, Corporal Robinson is mourning the death of his friend and fellow soldier, Randy Blackburn. A very distraughtful Vietnamese woman, who looks more like a girl, has abandoned a baby to him . . .
. . "Since the day that he had learned of Randy's death, he had felt a part of him had died, not able to imagine a time when everything and everyone wouldn't remind him of Randy. His mother's words as she had kissed his cheek and said good-bye at the airport pass in his mind. "Things happen for a reason, Jimmy. Fate never determines your life. Divine Intervention does."
His mother's words bring a feeling of finality for him. "You're not the enemy," he whispers looking down at the baby, now sound asleep in his arms. Her lips move, but her eyes never open as the corners of her mouth turn up. Touched, he answers his own question with another.
"Who cares who your father is?"
As Randy's smiling face appears in his mind again, he whispers, "You should be raised in the greatest country on earth."
"I'm going to make sure you are," he breathes into her ear.
"Randy would want it that way" . . . .
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COMING IN MAY 2013
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BY
MAURA (CLU) GALLAGHER
DARBY'S ROAD
THE SCATTERED SEEDS SERIES
VOLUME II
A scoundrel of an Irishman who will make you hate him
. . . and maybe even grow to love him!
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