Comments on: Elaine Neil Orr – A Different Sun

By: Anora McGaha

Anora McGaha — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:29:41 +0000

In reply to Florence.

Florence, thank you so much for your comment. We’ll point it out to Elaine. Her memoir Gods of the Noonday is about her experience growing up in Nigeria. I’ve just finished reading A Different Sun and it was so rich in so many ways. If you’re on Twitter, do follow us at @womenwriters, and me at @anorawrites. We’re also on Facebook. Are you? – Anora McGaha, Editor Women Writers, Women[‘s] Books

By: Barbara Anne Waite

Barbara Anne Waite — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:26:07 +0000

Just as I watched the sun setting over the blue Caribbean Sea, I finished reading “A Different Sun.” It was so perfect a story. I could identify with it on many levels. It brought back vivid memories of arriving as a young wife, mother and missionary in a country I had never seen, and learning to appreciate and love a people so very different in appearance, yet similar in many ways. We lived for 39 years on a small island as missionaries. I came, as Emma did, young and naïve. I too felt rather superior in some ways, and soon ( but, perhaps not soon enough) came to realize I had so much I could learn from the very people I had come to teach. I highlighted so many parts of the book as I read. It was written with words so rich in style, so profound, in so many ways. I have written a memoir taken from my Grandmother Elsie’s diary. Now I wonder how Elaine would have told Elsie’s story. Elsie had some rather cryptic notes in her diary. I was able to discover answers to some of them while doing research. I recently wrote a “tidbit” on my website entitled, “If only walls could talk.” I suppose that is what historical novels do. They allow us to “hear the walls” reveal the stories behind those who lived before our time. I felt Africa; I seemed to hear the walls of Emma’s home’s revealing secrets. Thank you, Elaine for sharing this vivid story.

By: Florence

Florence — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:09:35 +0000

I’m excited by the novel already tho I haven’t got one. I’m Nigerian. And learning that Elaine once lived in my country as a missionary’s daughter is more exciting.Knowing she’s drawing 4rm this experience makes me yearn for the book already. Where exactly did you stay in Nigeria, Elaine? And how was the experience…that’s if you can still recollect.
Im from Lagos,Nigeria. I’m of the Yoruba tribe.

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Learning to Fall - Women Writers, Women Books — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:40:18 +0000

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