The Word is Out
Why should someone read my book?
Posted in Author Blog by Sandy Munro on December 2, 2011
As more people read my book, I hear more amazing stories about family letters, and especially stories about letters between people heartbreakingly in love, but separated by events beyond their control. If you’ve got letters in the attic (or basement) from your parents or grandparents, Finding Uri may well prompt you to dig them out and make them part of your family story. My wonderful editor, Karen Chamberlain, was founder of the Aspen Writer’s Foundation. She taught a memoir writing class in which she said, “All family stories are important—just as all people are important, and they need to be passed down the line.”
I was a Navy carrier pilot in the 1960s, and my father was lost in the Pacific while flying in Torpedo Squadron 90 in WWII aboard the USS Enterprise. When my mother passed away in 2007, I received a box in the mail containing 190 previously “hidden” letters. No one knew they existed. I spent two years reading, researching, re-reading, and writing as I read—so you’ll discover the story in real-time as I did. I finally got a feel for what my father was really like, but my mother at the age of 23 took me by surprise. There’s flying, squadron life, and true stories of heroism, but mainly … it’s a love story.
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