The Medusa Tree

180 pages. A haunting story about the legacies of love and war, about three women living with hope and loss and each other. Marget, single and secretly pregnant, goes to live with her two grandmothers while she decides what to do. Age has made the grandmothers newly frail, and pregnancy Marget newly vulnerable. Set against the backdrop of her grandmothers' experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in WWII, this is the story of an extended family of women, not all related by blood, who manage despite distance and conflict to provide one another sanctuary. A debut novel Dressler is professor of literature at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Attractive small book with pictorial front and bright white back glossy covers.