The Orange Blossom Express

Aug. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- No one has ever said that the 1960s were a quiet, serene time in America.
The Orange Blossom Express is a blend of memoir and fiction from Marlena Evangeline, as she reflects on her own summer in the Age of Aquarius through the fictional story of two girls becoming women during the tail-end of one of the most turbulent times in American history. An exciting read about trying to get by in hippie culture (which isn't as innocent as it seems), The Orange Blossom Express is a good read through and through.( by Midwest Book Review)

This novel takes place back in the day of 1969, when weed first came upon the scene, and the possibility of change opened a provocative door to tempt the consciousness of an era.

About the Author:

     Marlene Evangeline spent her early years in the orange fresh groves of early California, between Los Angeles and the Palm Springs desert, in the town of Redlands where she viewed a changing world through the lens of an imaginative mind. Later, after many years in Santa Cruz, California, and then, after raising her daughter in the small town of Wilson, Wyoming, she studied at California State University, San Bernardino, where she earned a M. A. in composition and literary theory; later she attended the Writers Workshop at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she earned an M.F.A. in Fiction.
     The Orange Blossom Express, her fiction novel, was nominated for the Pushcart Press, Editor’s Book Award, under another title.  Along with poetry, fiction, essays and non-fiction, Evangeline has written several screenplays . . . among them an adaptation of the novel.  Her poetry has been published in The Pacific Review and Poetry Motel.

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