“The world needs more stories like these.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
Some thought she was a witch. For others Gletha was the image of God. But no one in Bear Run Township was untouched by the mysterious Goatlady.
I trudged from the edge of mystery to the hard reality of a shack in Bear Run Township, Northern Minnesota, 1942… I desperately needed a place of refuge beyond the shack in the timber with my brutal father and frightened mother. Gletha, the outcast, had built a healing home which time and again was to save me.
In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L’Engle and C.S. Lewis, Roger Robbenolt has fashioned this collection of children’s stories for adults. In recounting childhood experiences as “autobiographical mythologies,” Robbenolt offers a place of refuge where the child within each of us can find healing. Yet these tales go much further. Sharply honed images weave together laughter and tears to both amuse and call forth compassion and a fuller insight into the human condition. They are light-hearted tales, yet they evoke a response of deep and genuine human emotion from which the reader emerges with a sense of affirmation and wholeness.
– Madeleine L’Engle
Some thought she was a witch. For others Gletha was the image of God. But no one in Bear Run Township was untouched by the mysterious Goatlady.
I trudged from the edge of mystery to the hard reality of a shack in Bear Run Township, Northern Minnesota, 1942… I desperately needed a place of refuge beyond the shack in the timber with my brutal father and frightened mother. Gletha, the outcast, had built a healing home which time and again was to save me.
In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeleine L’Engle and C.S. Lewis, Roger Robbenolt has fashioned this collection of children’s stories for adults. In recounting childhood experiences as “autobiographical mythologies,” Robbenolt offers a place of refuge where the child within each of us can find healing. Yet these tales go much further. Sharply honed images weave together laughter and tears to both amuse and call forth compassion and a fuller insight into the human condition. They are light-hearted tales, yet they evoke a response of deep and genuine human emotion from which the reader emerges with a sense of affirmation and wholeness.
