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Overview
Before geography lessons and off-island travel enlightened us, we children assumed that all people lived as we did. We thought the world was made up of islands, each having it's own merry-go-round. What a pity we were wrong.;
At once funny, tender and wise, this collection of stories will touch everyone. Each story is a porthole into Susan Klein's distinctive experience growing up in the 1950s on Martha's Vineyard, an island that was, then, a sleepy community animated by the annual Bass and Bluefish Derby, full-day beach parties and the nation's oldest merry-go-around.
Editorials
KLIATT
Susan Klein is a professional storyteller and a longtime resident of Martha's Vineyard. She uses both of these parts of her life in this collection of stories of her childhood in the 1950s on Martha's Vineyard. Since these stories are based on her life, the characters in each of the tales are often recurring, and her own growth is recorded until she is an adult. One element of her life remains the same—the collection of beach plums and the making of jam. That process becomes a metaphor for her life and provides the "ruby window" of the title, which allows her to see her own story through the translucence of the prism of the red jam sitting on the windowsill of her childhood home. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1995, August House, 185p., Ages 15 to adult.—Nola Theiss