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IN SEARCH OF SUSANNA (1996)

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To order a copy of IN SEARCH OF SUSANNA (1996), please contact   University of Iowa Press  

This book is also available from Amazon.com's and Barnes and Noble's online ordering services.  In Search of Susanna is one of several recommended source on writing and creativity:  The Writing Mentor Reading Room  

Click on the book's cover to see a larger-sized version of the cover and read reviewers' comments. 

The public response to IN SEARCH OF SUSANNA has been gratifying.  I've been invited to do many readings, and I've also presented a number of community workshops on aspects of writing memoir. 

To learn more about the life my mother, Verna Klein Bunkers, click on  ISU Hall of Heroines 
 

To learn more about the life of my ancestor, Susanna Simmerl Youngblut, click on   ISU Hall of Heroines 

If you'd like to talk with me about either possibility, please e-mail me at suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu

LINK:

Luxembourg Genealogy Forum

 

BRIEF BIO:

Susanna Simmerl was born on April 2, 1831, in Oberfeulen, Luxembourg. Her first child, a daughter, Barbara Simmerl, was born there on December 30, 1856. Susanna immigrated to the U.S. in the spring of 1857, along with her brother Peter Simmerl. In December 1857, Susanna married Frank Youngblut.

    "Bunkers discovers that her own experience mothering a daughter outside of marriage provides the guiding thread through tangled webs of family secrets, village history, motherhood and daughterhood, legitimacy and illegitimacy.  The reader accompanies her on her quest until the center of a mystery that is as personal as it is familial is attained: Bunkers' affinity with her nineteenth-century foremother."

--Annis Pratt, author of Dancing with Goddesses and Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction.

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Suzanne and Rachel Bunkers, 1996