{"id":472,"date":"2020-11-29T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kldenman.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:17:06","slug":"dear-rosemary-by-gloria-hathaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Dear Rosemary                        by Gloria Hathaway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Full disclosure: Gloria Hathaway is a pen name, one chosen by myself and two other talented writers who are the co-authors of this story, written in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was an experiment and it was so much fun! <strong>Dear Rosemary<\/strong> is set in Canada, and it unfolds in emails, most of them shared between three old friends. The book is often laugh-out-loud funny, at other times reflective and poetic, and by the end, it brings many readers to tears.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a review from the Whistler Independent Book Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story beats the gentle time of everyday letters: describing and denoting a lifetime of friendship as the beating drum of the worldwide COVID pandemic changes and challenges everyone from ways small \u2013masks and toilet paper\u2013to life-threatening with the chokehold of the disease itself. Gloria Hathaway reminds the reader of COVID-19 early days, middle days, and buried memories. However, Dear Rosemary is not just a catalogue of woes, but a moving and engrossing chronicle of how everyday people retain and reconstruct their humanity no matter what. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"918\" src=\"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2-1024x918.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2-1024x918.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2-1536x1377.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/9.-3D-Rosemary-2.jpg 1644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure: Gloria Hathaway is a pen name, one chosen by myself and two other talented writers who are the co-authors of this story, written in the early [..]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,75,88,79,16,23,76,82,87,77,78,80,84,85],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid","tag-dear-rosemary","tag-elder-care","tag-epistolary","tag-fiction","tag-friendship","tag-gloria-hathaway","tag-humour","tag-lockdown","tag-love","tag-memoir","tag-pandemic","tag-romance","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}