Rewriting Marguerite

Rewriting Marguerite is a book of fiction set in Minnesota and Maui. In this debut novel JacLynn Herron introduces Marguerite otherwise known as MJ Burdick an author of whodunits. This time instead of guiding her characters through a mystery MJ must solve her own since the victim is her creative soul and the culprit grief.In 2015 Marguerite an octogenarian known by her readers and friends as MJ Burdick encounters more than writers block when she attempts to write her latest Minnesota-based mystery. A freakish bike accident the latest defining moment has claimed not only the life of her husband Harry but also her creative spirit. Supported from afar by a quirky writing group she ventures alone to the tropical island of Maui to retap her creative source. Using a seventy-five-year-old gift from her mother to revisit her past MJ attempts to revive her writers soul by reflecting on the joys strengths sorrows and shadows of her Minnesota upbringing. Her journey inward to reclaim self-acceptance and resiliency is nurtured by the Sato family local Maui residents whose elder is a World War II Nisei veteran with a Minnesota connection.