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GIFTS FROM THE HEART: STORIES, MEMORIES, & CHRONICLES OF LOU GONZALES OLLER Lou’s book, here posthumously assembled in her honor, does indeed celebrate her gifts as a storyteller and as a memorialist, does indeed exhibit a voice which brings to the everyday and intra-historical portraits and reports her warmly beautiful aliveness. What gives Lou’s book a special thrust, moreover, is that it has a foundation in journalism: the bulk of her literary output consists of some 700 pieces published under her by-line in the Colorado Springs Gazette during a brief period from 1995 through 2002. Had her life not been cut short by her death in 2003 at the age of fifty-five, her book might conceivably have taken a shape different from that of this collection. Lou’s book is none the less extraordinary: she is both its author and its subject. |
