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| 'E-mails From the Edge' is a truly great piece of work. Kudos to Ms. Maguire! Rating: 5 coffee cups by LISA – Book Review Café |
| This book is a must read for women of all ages. It helps you to remember the true value of friendship and come to the realization that distance is nothing but space between friends. Tami Parrington - WOW (Women On Writing) |
| “Emails from the Edge” is a story of friendship. More importantly it is the story of two survivors who face the challenges they are given and with each other’s strength come out on top. Mark Haeuser at WordThunder.com |
| 'Emails From The Edge' is a post 9/11 tutorial. Carolyn Howard-Johnson at WordThunder.com |
| True story of an American woman in the Land of the Rising Sun. Read her Journal. Especially poignant in light of today's troubled world. |
| A true story, the friendship between these two women shines from the page and you feel as if you've eavesdropped on a private conversation, but accidentally and then they smile at you and welcome you into that circle of friendship. The writing is real and down to earth, as only emails to good friends can be. An excellent read. Annette Gisby at Twisted Tales |
| Emails from the Edge" is the actual correspondence between an expatriate wife and a Houston housewife who laughed and cried as they shared each other’s life on-line almost every day for seven months. You will laugh and cry also as you read this story of deep friendship and understanding. I highly recommend "Emails from the Edge" to anyone who has at any time dreaded grocery shopping or spending time with family, friends and neighbors. Review by: Joan Moore Lewis, Southern Fiction Author, Georgia USA |
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| I had to smile when I read 'Emails From the Edge', as it reminded me of my many years in the Marine Corps. Seldom did we stay in one place for more than two years. My smile, however, soon turned to a sad awareness as I looked back at the selfishness in my life. When reading this book, I realized the enormous problem it was for my wife who (most of the time) did all the packing and all of the hard work that I took for granted. I never once thought about the loneliness my wife felt living in a foreign country. I had my work, but she had nothing. The relationship with the Houston housewife was nothing short of a miracle in this clever, honest, and original book. If you want to know what friendship is all about, this is a truly a delightful read. Both the good and the bad are brought out in this non-fiction story of true friendship. These two women are tough. They are true survivors. A must read book that will leave you laughing and crying. Ms. Maguire's book is definitely a wake-up call to the many spouses of those who move to foreign countries. Military personnel and travel agents should recommend this book to all parties who intend to move their families to a foreign country. Bobby Ruble is the author of the psychological thriller 'Have No Mercy.' |
| Margie Tovrea, writing as Kristie Leigh Maguire, takes us with her to the glorious and wonderful Land Of The Rising Sun. The minute she and her husband step off of that airplane, things begin to change. The language barrier hits them upside the head and just about knocks them over. The journey with Kristie has you rolling on the floor (which makes you look kinda silly if you're in a doctor's office) as she traipses through store isles "reading pictures" and then as she trudges back up the mountain to her "home." Just when she thinks all hope is lost, along comes Sandy Davis (who writes as Adrianna Larson), a housewife from near Houston, Texas. The two friends email each other almost on a daily basis, and become a lifeline to the "real world" of the United States. Someone who actually speaks English! This is one book that everyone needs to read if you or your spouse has a job which includes traveling in the good ole U.S.A. or abroad! A 5-star performance, except for that being a psychiatric nurse, I thought she could have gone TOTALLY insane!!! LOVED IT, KRISTIE!!! Epstein LaRue, author of "Crazy Thoughts Of Passion" and "Love At First Type." Chief Publishing Agent of Epstein Publishing. |
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| From her apartment in Yokohama, Japan – isolated by barriers of language both written and spoken, with only her husband to talk to although surrounded by millions in the world’s largest city – Margie Tovrea sends out a cry for help over the Internet. From her home near Houston, Texas, Sandy Davis answers that cry. This story of an expatriate wife, who follows her husband while his job assignments take him from foreign country to foreign country (as well as all over the United States), could not have been written in an earlier era even though Americans have been living and working overseas for as long as this country has existed. What makes Margie’s Japan experience (and therefore, this book) unique is the immediacy of her correspondence with her friend Sandy, who has more than an inkling about what Margie is going through because Sandy’s husband is in the same business. In fact, the two women met while both were living in a Western employees’ compound in Saudi Arabia, when their husbands had earlier assignments there. Sandy becomes Margie’s lifeline, offering an almost daily window into The Real World. Where one can buy food that looks and tastes familiar, and has readable labels. Where the tradespeople with whom a woman must deal treat her as a valued customer, instead of as an intruder whose presence in their country gives constant offense. Where there are books to read and people to talk to, and where the bills she must pay make sense – as do the operating instructions on her household appliances! Being an expatriate wife isn’t new to Margie, but living in a land where she feels completely unwelcome and where there are absolutely no other Western residents within reach is something she never imagined before experiencing it. Sandy, the true friend every human being deserves but may not be fortunate enough to find, experiences it right along with her. Gladly and lovingly, responding to Margie’s e-mails with messages that make one thing plain to any reader who ever had a close friend: the woman in Texas is drawing just as much emotional sustenance, and is learning just as many lessons from their correspondence, as the one in Japan. You’ll learn a lot about the Far East by reading Emails From the Edge. You’ll also learn what life is like for U.S. workers abroad on more typical assignments, and for the families who follow them. But what you will remember about this book, and would not find in any more conventional “travel story,” is the friendship that prompted its e-mails. Highly recommended! --Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of "Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle" |
| Emails from the Edge (The Life of an Expatriate Wife) by Kristie Leigh Maguire |
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