I’ll Be Seeing You
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Product Details
Publisher: Rhododendron Press
Release Date: October 17, 2023
Formats: Paperback, Ebook
ISBN: PB: 979-8-9882758-0-0; EB: 979-8-9882758-1-7
Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 310
Karen Triplett
As the 1960s unfold, five young women forge a friendship at the University of Washington that will carry them through college academics as well as the growing cognition of their own personal capabilities in a city that is also looking for its own destiny.
The fall of 1963 begins the enduring story of five young women at the University of Washington. Each of them has a different background, but all have the same goal: to secure an education and forge their own paths in life without succumbing to parental or societal pressure to simply marry and have children. They experience the complex world of friendship, love, and heartbreak on their journey to adulthood.
Their time of innocence yields to more turbulent days. With demands for equality for women growing louder, the Vietnam War on the horizon, and their realization that not everyone has the same civil rights, Linzi, Marie, Helen, Jody, and Dorothy learn that although plans can be disrupted, their devotion to one another will sustain them as they undergo the academic rigors of college as well as in the Pan Am skies, the Peace Corps in rural Bolivia, an unplanned pregnancy, and the complex world of love and heartbreak.
An intricately woven tale in the vein of Mary McCarthy’s The Group and Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, with a nod to the harsh realities for women in the 1960s workplace explored in the Mad Men series, I’ll Be Seeing You is a testament to young women who challenge expectations with their dreams and ambition.
About the Author
Karen Triplett has taught school, sold life insurance, worked in research for a library, and owned and managed a marina and boatyard business. She currently lives in Gig Harbor with her husband on the same property where she lived as a child. She has learned that not only can you go home again, but you can also go back to college in your mind when you write a novel about it. You can learn about all the stuff you may not have learned the first time.
Reviews
“An engaging, entertaining, and deeply revealing story about the trials and challenges of five women and their quests to finish college during the Mad Men era of the ’60s. Highly recommended.” —Don Pugnetti Jr., author of A Coat Dyed Black: A Novel of the Norwegian Resistance
“Karen Triplett’s I’ll Be Seeing You will make you fall in love with Seattle, if you haven’t done that already—and with these five vibrant women, who will make you remember things you must never forget.” —Ann Putnam, author of Cuban Quartermoon and I Will Leave You Never
“I’ll Be Seeing You shows the growing awareness of five college women during the tumultuous 1960s. Anchored in the evergreen world of the Pacific Northwest, their story will resonate with any reader who has tried to make sense of the world.”
—Beverly Conner, author of Falling from Grace and Where Light Is a Place