Bottled Dreams A True Story Chronicling The Fate Of Seven World |
Eighty-six-year-old Monette Goetinck's Bottled Dreams is a compelling and true story chroniclingthe fate that awaited herself and six other French North African war brides half a century ago in America, following their hastily-entered marriages to American soldiers in the tumultuous days that marked the end of World War II. These U.S. servicemen were complete strangers to Goetinck and the other women who, given the idealization created by war and the desire to escape war-ravaged North Africa, perceived them as young American warriors, imbued with friendliness, healthy aliveness, and unending generosity. As Goetinck writes, "They were good guys, easy to like, easy to fall in love with." In January 1946 Goetinck left Algeria aboard the U.S.S. Bald Eagle, a rust-streaked liberty ship bound for America and her blond, American savior. On board she and the other war brides , Nadia, Marie, Arlette, Emma, Lola and Gisle, share their cast-off pasts and their future dreams. Half-way across the Atlantic, Goetinck suggested they write their hopes and dreams on notes, after which they stuffed the notes into an empty Cognac bottle, and tossed it into the sea. Goetinck's Bottled Dreams gives a poignant account of the hardships she and her new-found friends encountered in America after having ironically survived a tragic war. Goetinck herself was forced by Algerian law to leave her seven-year-old son behind with her former husband when she emigrated to America. It was fourteen years before she was to see him again. . |
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