The Assigned Visit

By Shelley Fraser Mickle

As young, passionate students in the same Harvard writing class, Susan Masters and Caleb Montiel make a pact: if either lives out a story too-emotionally intense to handl, they will give it to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157966072X
• ISBN13: 9781579660727
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: River City Publishing
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A Keeper

In The Assigned Visit, Susan, the naïve girl from the South meets Caleb, the yet-unformed young man from the Northeast. They become friends at Harvard while the angst-driven Vietnam War shapes their generation's values. Camille, the monster hurricane, outdone only by its evil twin Katrina, sweeps away a portion of Susan's beloved South and Caleb drifts from Susan's life. Twenty years later, they find each other because of a promise they made to write the story they could not write for themselves. Verbal portraits are Shelley Fraser Mickle's forte. She transports her readers with the eye of an artist whose metaphors ring with reality. This story sticks in the heart of anyone who ever second-guessed a life altering decision and remains long after being put on the shelf for safekeeping Julie Eberhart Painter Florida

"Assigned Visit" is Top-Drawer Fiction

Shelley Mickle is a fantastic writer. In "The Assigned Visit" she revisits the South of the 1960s. Her characters sparkle with a freshness not often found in today's literature. And her love story reads as topical as today's headlines. Seesawing back and forth from today and yesterday, Harvard and the Mississippi Gulf coast, "The Assigned Visit" is well worth the visit.

Wonderful storytelling...

The Assigned Visit is an enjoyable journey back in time, a reminder of what it was like to be young and unsure about love. Shelley Fraser Mickle has created a clear sense of place and time, transporting us with vivid imagery from Cambridge, Mass., to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, during the late 1960s-early '70s. Whether or not this was your era, this story moves well. It kept my attention throughout, and I found myself thinking and caring about the characters even when I wasn't reading the book.

a visit to one's past

A not-so-simple tale of unrequited love becomes an absorbing story of the late 60s. The author weaves the mood of those times with long-forgotten historical detail, a passionate love story, ominous plot lines and an unpredictable ending. Both the main and minor characters are well-drawn. Mickle uses an interesting literary device to write from a man's perspective as a woman. Much more than a beach read, but just as enjoyable.

Totally Absorbed

My usual reading material includes suspense, mystery and an occasional historical novel. This book is all of that without a single murder! I was so absorbed with the characters that I could hardly put it down. If you love the South, you will appreciate the book all the more. The style in which the story is told fascinated me and pulled me along on the characters' journey. This was pure entertainment.