But This Is Different A Novel edition by Mary Walker Baron Literature Fiction eBooks
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It's the dawn of a new year, 1978.
On a tiny, uncharted island in the South Pacific, residents are celebrating. Leading the ceremony is a woman known as "Mere." In the language of the island that means "Star of the Sea." Forty years ago, Mere came to their island from the sea and became their star.
Though she isn't a native, she works beside the islanders each day, helping women in childbirth and providing comfort to the dying. She shields children from storms and teaches them how to build paper airplanes that actually fly. She speaks the language of the island like a native.
Outside the island, the existence of Mere is a closely guarded secret. Forty years ago, islanders entered into a solemn pact, to keep her presence hidden from the rest of the world. It's a promise they have kept.
But all that changes on the first day of 1978. In the crate full of gifts that always arrives with the New Year, on board a very unusual boat, is a letter to Mere from the woman known to the islanders as "Pilapan", or "Mother Chief".
It is a letter that changes everything, that plunges Mere into a voyage of discovery. "All of my professional life I have insisted that death is a natural part of life..." the letter says. "But this is different. I am dying."
And indeed, from that point on, everything changes - for Mere and for readers who come along on this exploration of commitments and promises.
It's a world that's familiar and yet dramatically different. It will move you and it might even change you in the process.
"But This Is Different" embodies the despair we must be willing to feel if we are to truly love, and gives us hope that we can integrate not only our separate islands but our separate selves. Mary Walker Baron has crafted an eco-philosophical, eco-psychological and eco-spiritual masterpiece of profound significance and joy. - Jackie Lanum PhD. - Professor, Santa Monica College, International Community of Eco-psychologists, Joanna Macy facilitator.
But This Is Different A Novel edition by Mary Walker Baron Literature Fiction eBooks
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No one wants to leave their home, especially when that home is a beautiful hidden island paradise where you have been living on for the last 40 years. But for Mere, Star of the Sea, must force herself to leave, and go on an adventure of pain and love. But This is Different is an emotional stroll with an unusual protagonist. Mere, an eighty-year-old woman, receives a letter written by Pilapan, the Mother Chief, asking Mere to come back to New York. Mere leaves and finds herself in the modern reality, the world of 1978. Mere has to cope with this new world while also balancing her feelings toward her lover. I cannot go into more detail on the plot, because I do not want to spoil this marvelous book.
The strongest feature of this book is the plot. The mystery and intrigue of Mere is addicting, as each clue is like a getting a piece to a larger puzzle. The book is not only rich in plot, but it is also lavishly detailed and driven by high emotion. You care about the characters, and you feel the pain they feel. The detail makes the places and the people in the book feel real. Each character has a spark of life that blooms into a profound pillar that carries Mere to her final destination. Even characters that have miniscule roles have a real depth to them.
I enjoyed the subtle pro-environment message of the book. Mere is spiritually connected to nature and even in the city, the plants and trees are her greatest supporters. The book also has an emotional and physical ending that satisfies. I would be surprised if you do not have a tear in your eye by the end of the book. But This is Different is truly a different kind of book, with a touching story will hook you until the end.
*Originally published for San Francisco/Sacramento Book Review*
Imagine waiting forty years on an isolated Pacific island, waiting for a special someone to fulfill her part of an agreement made so long ago it's almost beyond memory. Such is the life Mere, our main character, is living. It's an existence filled with constant pain and mourning that hasn't lessened with the years. Mere's only comforts are an old, crippled man and watchful woman who cherish Mere as the "Star of the Sea" of this New Guinea island! Others serve Mere and gladly run at her beck and call as if she were the treasure she is perceived to be! The woman who brought her here is revered as a goddess, even in her strange mournful absence!
Every year a mysterious box of gifts arrives on the last day of the year. It's a ritual celebrated on Mere's island almost as a religious rite but one that increases the mystical point of view of the islanders who have guarded Mere's pact for secrecy all these years. They teach her that the highest appreciation of life is to simply and lovingly "be!"
But that other woman now sends a letter in which she states she is dying and wishes Mere to return to New York to be with her beloved in her last days. Here is the journey of an older, dedicated friend who is not always mentally fit but endears all whom she meets on the journey. Inadvertently, she will wind up living as a homeless person who is briefly committed to a mental institution before ending up with her former lover.
But This Is Different is a literate, uniquely crafted novel that is absolutely mesmerizing. Secrets abound and aren't quickly revealed until the reader absorbs the complete personality of the main character which is intellectual, spiritual, and most of all deeply and lovingly emotional. Inner pain is an aching world unto itself. Committment and promises carry a depth far beyond the original words spoken and literally change one's world! The revelation of these two characters is quite stunning!
What else can one say about this beautiful, exquisite novel? Buy it, read it, and love it as much as this reviewer is sure you will! Absolutely outstanding!!!
Full of great vision and imagination. Truly enjoyed book. Ordered hard copies for friends.......couldn't put it down.. Highly recommend to anyone.
What an imagination..could not put the book down. Very intriguing premise and story, well written too! Very surprising plot and I loved it!
a remarkably well written book that takes you on a fantasy journey that seems so real about what might have happened with Amelia Earhart had she actually landed on a remote island.
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