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Seven Bowls of Rice
Love, faith and rice, core ingredients of Louisiana culture, thicken the gumbo of survival for strikingly handsome LT. WHITNEY LANGLOIS, a south Louisiana French and Castilian Creole. This is a riveting story of survival of the Bataan Death March, three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and three Japanese “hell” ships, two sunk by American bombs. Simultaneously Whitney’s young wife Flo and family fight their own emotional and spiritual demons. They refuse to surrender to the darker forces; they refuse to give up.Based on a true story and filled with romance, reality and a few miracles, this is a story of passion, determination, and grit. It is Americana at its best as it blends cultures. The regional foods of south Louisiana bayou country and the tobacco country of South Carolina enrich the senses of the reader and the backgrounds of the characters. Rice, the staple of prisoners of war is the epicurean glue and a key to survival.
289 pages, Hardcover
Published December 24, 2020
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April 16, 2021
Thank you, Maria! Your father's story captured me!
I had to read this book! My father fought in the Philippines WWII. He left four babies behind with his beloved wife! He would never tell us of those years. He would come home critically ill!
This is your father's story. Since neither my mom and dad were willing to tell their story, if only they would have. I am a 70-year old woman now! There is a hole in the knowledge of these years in our family history! I will never know how terrible the war was for him. Yet, I know he earned his reward as one of the Greatest Generation.
After he came home...he and mother would welcome four more children. I was the seventh child! They are gone and we miss them dearly.
Your book brings more questions of that time. I am so glad to have read it! It is an amazing window of the men who fought through the hell of war! All of them, in all campaigns ,sacrificed and gave their all!
Your book brought so many emotions. You did a big honor to your father in writing this book. I pray he looked down over his shoulder with pride in you! Again, thank you! Patricia
Captivated in your story, I read it in two days.
I had to read this book! My father fought in the Philippines WWII. He left four babies behind with his beloved wife! He would never tell us of those years. He would come home critically ill!
This is your father's story. Since neither my mom and dad were willing to tell their story, if only they would have. I am a 70-year old woman now! There is a hole in the knowledge of these years in our family history! I will never know how terrible the war was for him. Yet, I know he earned his reward as one of the Greatest Generation.
After he came home...he and mother would welcome four more children. I was the seventh child! They are gone and we miss them dearly.
Your book brings more questions of that time. I am so glad to have read it! It is an amazing window of the men who fought through the hell of war! All of them, in all campaigns ,sacrificed and gave their all!
Your book brought so many emotions. You did a big honor to your father in writing this book. I pray he looked down over his shoulder with pride in you! Again, thank you! Patricia
Captivated in your story, I read it in two days.
February 24, 2021
Wonderfully written
The closest one can come to knowing the horrors and uncertainty of war and the lonely heartache of loved ones left at home.
The closest one can come to knowing the horrors and uncertainty of war and the lonely heartache of loved ones left at home.
July 7, 2021
Seven Bowls of Hope
This is the place I usually find myself after reading a very affecting book...and this is one. I am of the same age group as the author and most of what she spoke to was the thread of my life in rural South Texas and later San Antonio.
If you are younger then please, please read and a sorb anyway. These stories are the basis of our American pride and our history and our families. What they tell us we must pass on to the next generation so that they will know why they must honor the veterans in thier families, why they must revere the elders of the family. God bless America!
This is the place I usually find myself after reading a very affecting book...and this is one. I am of the same age group as the author and most of what she spoke to was the thread of my life in rural South Texas and later San Antonio.
If you are younger then please, please read and a sorb anyway. These stories are the basis of our American pride and our history and our families. What they tell us we must pass on to the next generation so that they will know why they must honor the veterans in thier families, why they must revere the elders of the family. God bless America!
September 10, 2021
seven bowels of rice
This was a fantastic book on survival. Bring a true story even impressed me more. That was a tragic war, and we lost so many men who endured such hell to survive. Faith and believing in Jesus was very apparent. A must read, thanks to the author who wrote this book
This was a fantastic book on survival. Bring a true story even impressed me more. That was a tragic war, and we lost so many men who endured such hell to survive. Faith and believing in Jesus was very apparent. A must read, thanks to the author who wrote this book
November 9, 2021
Whitney
The horrors of war are related in this story by a survivors daughter. She details romance and dreams that are suspended by the terrible day to day life lived in a war and as a prisoner of that war. Survival was the struggle and faith and hope brought a few of them home to recover some of the dreams.
The horrors of war are related in this story by a survivors daughter. She details romance and dreams that are suspended by the terrible day to day life lived in a war and as a prisoner of that war. Survival was the struggle and faith and hope brought a few of them home to recover some of the dreams.
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