Seasons of Sun & Rain

I wish that I could afford to send a copy of this book to all my friends.

I won this book in a drawing and had no idea the jewel I now had in my hand. Once I began this story I could not put it down because I became so entwined into the lives of these friends who became acquainted in college. This book mirrors the relationships so many of us have in our own lives---creating friendships, losing contact for a while, and rebonding later. These relationships are part of who we are and continue to be important to us. The beautiful friendships, acceptance of others, and how each of us perceive the "role" others have in our friendship are examined. I had never thought much about this until I read this book.

I wrote Summers with the bears and was the publisher of Cook County News Herald in Grand Marais, stumbled onto this book in our library and saw GM in book so brought it home where my wife read it in one and half days. She loved it, touching story on friendships with women about women, and with insights into the beautiful country we lived in, Grand Marais, only the locals called Ben Franklin, Joynes, not Ben, other than that it was a good read. Thank you Marjorie for a great book

I was fascinated by the characters in this book and by the way in which it was written. While I was puzzled at first as to why so much of the discussion revolves around past events, I soon realized the beautiful interwoven commentaries this allowed Dorner to make about the connections between memory and self-definition as well as about what the loss of memory truly does mean. I finished the book in a 24-hour period, unwilling to put it down and wishing that I could follow these six women for just a bit longer through their lives.