Recipe from an Oyster, A Memoir
Publisher: Media Weavers LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 978-9647212-3-4
Table of contents: title: 22 chapters, many family photos.; title: Doreen grew up in the Philippines and she and her family were POWs there during WW II.; title: The book is a collection of essays and poetry about life in the US after Doreen's experiences during the war, and their personal pain after she and her family arrive in the US as refugees.; title: Like the oyster, Wiley faces towering challengers and through persistence and patientce finds the "pearls" in her new life--a loving family, marriage, children and a teaching career.; title: The titles is from a poem she published in The Youth's Instructor in 1968.; title: Blurbs by Betty Buckley Finnegan, writer and artist, National League of American Pen Women, Portland Branch; and Lawson F. Inada, Poet Laureate of Oregon.