Blessed Assurance

In this book a historian of women’s lives turns the lens on her own experience. Her story is “Midwestern” for its work ethic modesty faith and resilience; “postmodern” for its sudden changes strange juxtapositions and retrospective deconstruction of the ideologies that shaped its progress. It describes a life in and out of academia and a search for acceptance recognition equality and freedom. The author of three books on women’s experiences in Russia and Europe Dr. Marcelline Hutton traces her personal journey from traditional working-class La Porte Indiana through college graduate school marriage motherhood divorce and independence in Iowa City Southampton Kansas City El Paso and ultimately Lithuania. She arrives at a place of “blessed assurance” recognizing who she was what she has done and what she most valued. The book is a testimony of life found and treasured and shared. We are privileged to see her world through this honest perceptive and insightful recollection.