Remember Me Dancing

By Ken Parejko

Book Overview

The past is a foreign countrydistant and strangeyet Ken Prejko's wonderful novel charts it with intimate detail by focusing on a single farm family. The Topolskis' year is shaped by the seasonal cycle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878569368
• ISBN13: 9781878569363
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Waubesa Pr
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Remember Me Dancing

This book is a wonderful depiction of a time and a culture, one that refuses to gloss over the unpleasant aspects of the lives it represents. I found it to be extraordinarily touching, both brutal and tender, tragic and beautiful, evocative and unflinching. The characters are so well conceived and so well represented that I was moved to tears as I read. My mother sent a copy to me and we haven't stopped talking about it since. I felt the presence of the characters and now feel the loss of them. I come from a Polish American background, and find myself identifying characters in the book with characters in my own family history. This book was impossible for me to put down, and I would whole-heartedly recommend it.

This book is a rare and beautifully written treat!

The people who inhabit the pages of Ken Parejkno's wonderful and beautifully written book, Remember Me Dancing, become to us, the readers, far more than names on a page. Each one of the Topolski relatives grows as dear to us as a member of our own family; it feels as if the Topolski's neighbors live over the back field from us. We rejoice when they are happy and join with them in mourning during their times of sorrow and bad luck. Rarely does one find such detailed description couched in language so vivid and colorful. Parejko helps us better to understand the life experiences of Polish families new to our country. In addition, his descriptions of Wisconsin farm life in the first half of this century hold a magnetism which draws us in and holds us captivated. What a treat this book is!