Dreaming Mill Valley edition by Christie Nelson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Dreaming Mill Valley charts the course of love—tangled, crazy, destructive, passionate, and tender—in the spring of 1974 when all the rules have been broken and the heart longs for home. As America rolls through political and social turmoil, in the quirky community of Mill Valley, California, marriages have been tossed overboard, children roam freely, and sex is exploratory. Just across the Golden Gate Bridge in the glittering streets of San Francisco, the gay revolution is in full swing and political protest is mandatory.
Jess McCarty, from the novel Woodacre, has returned and is determined to give her daughter a stable home as she maneuvers the risky borders of love and an ambition to dance. Daniel Gessler, a Bolinas surfer and law school dropout, uncovers a family secret that focuses him on reclaiming his grandfather’s legacy. Annie Morrison struggles to balance motherhood with a passion to paint. Stewart Merch, a transplant from Michigan and teacher at Old Mill Grammar School, is escaping his past and searching for his future.
Through tales of love, loss, and redemption, Dreaming Mill Valley, portrays the emotional landscape of four ordinary people who rediscover the strength of friendship, resilience of the human spirit, and enduring bonds of family.
Dreaming Mill Valley edition by Christie Nelson Literature Fiction eBooks
Dreaming Mill Valley continues the life and saga of Jess McCarty, first created in the novel, Woodacre. Her goals as dancer and mother vie with her desire for love and friendships. Written in a poetic prose style, Christie Nelson keeps alive the lovely hip community of Mill Valley of the 1970's in our memories forever. She has created a novel of incredible power and a love story of memorable depth.Product details
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Dreaming Mill Valley edition by Christie Nelson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
In Dreaming Mill Valley, the setting of the story is Marin County, CA, which becomes a sort of character of its own. Reading it reminded me of this quote by the Nigerian author Ben Okri "I realized you cannot evoke a place truly till you find a tone, a narrative, in tune with the dimensions of that place. You can't use Jane Austen to tell stories about Africa."
I think the author, Christie Nelson, has done this for Marin in the 1970s.
I really enjoyed reading Dreaming Mill Valley. In fact I stayed up till 1 am to finish it and find out what happened to everyone. The characters were likeable and real, and I loved the author's style-- very descriptive but not overdone. Nelson did truly evoke Marin; in fact, it made me want to move there!
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the novel
"How odd that days were filled with miracles of every kind-- wonder, delight, comfort-- but nights were often strewn with ghosts." p.91
"Dance is making shapes with your body to tell a story." p.126
"A wave of sadness rushed at her. The twin forces of loss and gain, triumph and failure, shuffled in again, side by side." p.299
In sum, I highly recommend reading Dreaming Mill Valley. Enjoy!
What a luscious journey back in time to the 1970s set right in the heart of change, San Francisco and Marin County. This is a story filled with details for all of the senses, reminding us all of the memorabilia of the era and the sensibilities of those who lived it. From granola to Watergate, from Bob Dylan to free love and the emergence of gay pride, this story is rich with images and artifacts of the era. Dreaming Mill Valley is a unique take on the much-written-about era in that it reveals not only the sweeping culture shifts, but also the transition of the family structure and the changing role of motherhood at that time. Even for those who came of age in the 70s, it's still awe-inspiring to remember just how many revolutions occurred all at once and that regular people were caught in the whirlwind of it all.
Nelson's rich and sensuous writing style makes each page a small delight. It's sexy, fun, moving, and engaging. No car chases. No explosions. Politics is in the background and the search for love is the real quest. This is a story of true-to-life people at an amazing moment in time. Delicious, just delicious.
I find myself dreaming and remembering another world called "the seventies" as I read Christie Nelson's Dreaming Mill Valley--and it will awaken your dreaming self too. Written in poetic language, you are immersed in the almost magical little town of Mill Valley, California which is nestled at the feet of Mt. Tamalpais, also known as The Sleeping Lady. The feeling of pine trees, redwoods, the fog that shrouds the coast there in Marin county, the blessing of sun and the magic of the Pacific coast make you want to close your eyes and dream.
Nelson creates a world of people in this place that we care deeply about--Jess, a dancer with a young daughter whose journey from idealistic cynic to trust and fulfillment we follow eagerly; Annie her good friend, who with two sons is juggling being single with following the enticements of the mid-seventies; Daniel, a young man who lives in a house perched on the edge of the world, and whose world shifts with the tectonic plates of California's shifting land; and Stewart, whose role as a male teacher offers him a way to be safe in a time when men like him struggle to find their identity. The story keeps you engaged with all the characters while also offering you a meditation on the seventies--what it was like to wake up to the possibility of new worlds for women--sexually, financially, and in love relationships; the idea that a gay man might not have to suffer the humiliation of hiding in the closet all his life; that a woman might be able to choose how to raise her children differently from the way society demanded; and that forgiveness and redemption are possible for long held old wounds.
I wept when the book ended, moved by the shifts that each character made to find their best selves and because I had to leave behind the delicious and demanding seventies. I will read and reread passages that are dogeared so I can find them--the poetry of the Sleeping Lady, the salt air of the Pacific coast, the tang of pine trees. A wonderful book!
This is a good read. I enjoyed looking back at an interesting time and place with characters I recognized and learned to care about.
Not a terrific book for writing style, fun to read if you are a local. Lots of local references. Quick beach read.
This book and "Woodacre" were fun reads if you spent much time in Marin in the seventies. The people, the places, the general attitude brought back wonderful memories of that era. "Mill Valley" borrowed heavily from Cyra McFadden's "Serial" as well as Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City". Some of the characters were fully drawn; others were a bit cliched. This is picky on my part, I know, but the editing could have been better. Every few pages had a misspelled word or misplaced apostrophe. But overall, glad to have read it and would recommend.
Dreaming Mill Valley continues the life and saga of Jess McCarty, first created in the novel, Woodacre. Her goals as dancer and mother vie with her desire for love and friendships. Written in a poetic prose style, Christie Nelson keeps alive the lovely hip community of Mill Valley of the 1970's in our memories forever. She has created a novel of incredible power and a love story of memorable depth.
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