Background
Caram, Eve La Salle was born on May 11, 1934 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of Raymond Briggs and Lois Elizabeth (Merritt) La Salle.
(DEAR CORPUS CHRISTI celebrates the quirky lives of ordina...)
DEAR CORPUS CHRISTI celebrates the quirky lives of ordinary Americans to which fortunately fiction from time to time returns. The novel, in the form of a journal, is a loving memoir to a time and a place and the people who lived in their context. Eve LaSalle Caram is interested in the pat as it intersects with and illuminates the present and provides a sesen of community. Dear Corpus Christi is a novel of honesty and gift.
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(This is the story of an ninety-year-old woman, Rena, who ...)
This is the story of an ninety-year-old woman, Rena, who happens into a contemporary catastrophe that causes her to integrate the pieces of her life. Rena, a completely open person whose name means rebirth narrates the story from the fishing peer, a posthumous story, one in which she reconciles the conflicts of a long life that spanned and paralleled the conflicts of our century. Gulf wind blows her literarly off the bus, across the street to buy a scarf at Kresss and the story is off. She meets a young man, Renato Santos, who helps her find a fishing pole. Her first husband had liked fishing. He told her in a dream to get on the bus and go to Corpus Christi. She did it. She and Renato become friends which gets her eventually shot by a crack cocaine dealer who turns out to be his twin brother. The troubles of the Santos family parallel the troubles of Renas own family. Their healing is her own. The dialectic of the story is a weaving together of past and present. The narrator is looking back at life, scenes inside of scenes create a continuity that transcends the individual, but is for everyone.
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"The Blue Geography" continues the story of the characters in the critically acclaimed short novel, "Wintershine". A mercurial book about the quest for for freedom and the pursuit of happiness, it interweaves four stories which span the 20th century; those of Beatrice, her mother, Louise, her Uncle Robin (all of whom narrate) and that of Beatrice's uncle, Lyman Roy. Louise tells about her youth when she ran away on a wild horse that she loved. Robin, who is a timid boy, tells about flying off rooftops and almost off an Hawaiian hilltop, (and about how he discovered when he was on stage that he could sing). Roy's story, which Beatrice relates, is different - a "journey to the interior," a story of withdrawal, retreat into what Beatrice calls "the world's heart"- and the one she learns the most from. An American myth, a chase after a dream that spans continents and oceans, a long rainbow - in this case, Scotland to Maui, this is a book that explores the concept of boundlessness and a quest for freedom of the spirit.
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("Palm Readings" is a collection of short fiction by seven...)
"Palm Readings" is a collection of short fiction by seven women in Southern California, edited by Eve La Salle Caram. In addition to short stories these women of vairous cultural backgrounds, "Palm Readings" also contains a detailed chapter of fiction writing exercises and editing techniques which will be of use to educators and beginning writers. The seven women whose stories are collected here have come to Los Angeles from a number of cultures Stel DeLen and Louinn Lota born in the Philippines, Anita Santiago in Venezuela, Mara Amparo Escandn in Mexico; one is a third and another a fifth generation Californian (Susan Lee and Marnell Jameson) and one (Jacqueline Jaffe) did most of her growing up in Los Angeles. Some have written for years and published widely, others have just begun to write. For several, publication in these pages is a first. For all their differences, coming to terms, in fiction and creative non-fiction, with their identity and their values seems a common thread. All but one have taken courses in The Writers Program, UCLA Extension. Mara Amparo Escandn is a teacher in that program, as I am, and Marnell Jameson is a teacher of writing in the Public Relations Program at UCLA Extension.
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Caram, Eve La Salle was born on May 11, 1934 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of Raymond Briggs and Lois Elizabeth (Merritt) La Salle.
Bachelor, Bard College, 1956. Master of Arts, University Missouri, 1977.
English instructor Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1974,79-82. Fiction writing graduate instructor School Professional Writing University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1982-1987. English literature and writing instructor California State University, Northridge, since 1983.
Senior fiction writing instructor The Writers' Program University of California at Los Angeles, since 1983. Fiction contest judge California State University, Long Beach, 1992, 94, writer's conference speaker, 1985-1987, 94. Speaker, member panel Texas American Studies Association, Wichita Falls, 1998.
(This is the story of an ninety-year-old woman, Rena, who ...)
(DEAR CORPUS CHRISTI celebrates the quirky lives of ordina...)
("Palm Readings" is a collection of short fiction by seven...)
("The Blue Geography" continues the story of the character...)
Member of American Association of University Professors, Association California State Professors, National Association Teachers English,, Poets and Writers, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center United States of America West, Greenpeace.
Married Richard George Caram, April 19, 1965 (div. April 1978); 1 child, Bethel Eve.