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by Marcia Davey
Paperback ISBN #1-4134-5496-8
Pages: 220
Camille’s Fond Embrace is a story about a woman of a certain age whose focus is on a life clouded with loss and ambiguities. She is David’s second wife and she often wonders if she will indeed be his last.( There is Molly.) David’s grandchildren, Greta and Matt, are welcomed into this new family unit, and the transition is not smooth. But Camille forms a bond with the children at the same time she is forming a different bond with a stranger she met on the train to Boston. He is a former prisoner of war from the conflict in Vietnam and a hero to his students at the War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
And he plays bassoon in the retired Navy band. Camille shares his love of music; she once played too - guitar – with her friends in San Francisco. And while Geoffrey Woodburn was fighting for his survival in a bamboo cage in a Vietnamese jungle, she and her friends were protesting the war, burning bras and draft cards and spending overnights in jail.
These two people meet in later life as they are coming full circle and reviewing their paths from a new distance. They are connecting the dots of their lives and who could have imagined that now, some forty years later, they are in the same place. After Captain Woodburn comes into her life, Camille sees with a new intensity that unsettles her. She is open to new possibilities. Isn’t she too old for this? Is she besotted? Like a teenager. Like Greta? She thought this was finished. She thought that new passions for anything had sailed off into the Newport sunset. Surprised she is.
Marcia Davey graduated from Acadia University and Providence College. She is retired from a teaching career and lives in Rhode Island and Florida. Her previous book, Three Stories, was published in 2002.
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Read an Excerpt of Camille's Fond Embrace Below
"Life is a symphony, Camille. Life is a beautiful symphony."
"Yes," she says.
He continues, "First we have the overture. In the overture we have the seeds . . . the hint of what is to come. The DNA of the symphony is presented . . . like our birth. And the procession of life begins. There is tension, relieved and unrelieved, there is sadness, there is joy and there are periods of repetition . . . or periods that you may think are repetitive, if you are not listening. All is a variation on the first theme . . . maybe."
"Life is like that, Camille. At our age we get to look back at the symphony we have lived. We get to see our own personal creation. We get to see the finished product . . . and embrace it all and shout for joy at the wonder."
Camille is silent.
Then she says, "Geoffrey, it's amazing . . . it is all so amazing. Yes, we get to connect the dots."
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