REVIEWS

THE OTHER SIDE: CLOSING THE DOOR

"Donna Girouard has a real feeling for the sorrows and joys of everyday American

life and presents her characters with passion and understanding" - Dan Wakefield,

author of Going All the Way and New York in the Fifties

"A lovely and passionate memoir, The Other Side contemplates the

blessing and burden of family history, and how one's first home place

can shape an individual's identity long after childhood is over. This is

an elegant, haunting, and original book." --Susan Tekulve, author of

In The Garden of Stone and Savage Pilgrims

"Donna Girouard has written a memoir that brings vividly to life a New England

family, with a memorable cast of characters and all a family's tensions and intrigues

as well as the story of an entire community. In so doing, she also vivifies the house

where her family lived during her childhood. The reader finishes this book feeling

that he or she has actually inhabited the family home which becomes in these pages

a living, breathing creature. The Other Side is a coming of age story and a fine

memorial to the author's family and its way of life, its joys and sorrows" - Richard

Tillinghast, author of Finding Ireland: a Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture

and An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul

FELIX FINDS A FUR-EVER FAMILY

"What delightful little books, written with caring, compassion and a touch of humor"

"What a sweet, happy story."

"A feel-good book for all ages."