Merrill Margaret sees the world through her fingertips and understands, as only a child can, the unspoken words of her animal friends. After becoming sick, she takes flight from her hospital bed on a journey in the sky with Jason the Mockingbird and Beau Coon. The quest leads to unexpected results, and Margaret Merrill learns that loss and gain are inseparable in life.
Author: Edmonds Prufrock Mackey
Author Edmonds Prufrock Mackey also wrote The Honorable Way: Life Lessons Aboard a Destroyer in the Western Pacific, 1963.
About the Author
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Edmonds “Bud” Prufrock Mackey was born in Columbus, Ohio, attended Saint Paul Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota and New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961. After completing Naval Officer Candidate School, he was deployed to the western Pacific and the Gulf of Tonkin. Mackey is a resident of Kansas City and the author of The Honorable Way, a book based on his experiences serving in the military during the early years of the Vietnam War.
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"...a classic case of 'a good story well told.'...The theme is summed up by a line drawn from one of the poems and woven into the back cover illustration: What is life without the wonder?"
— Timothy W. Henderson, Amazon reviewer