"Lila" is the biography of the author's mother. Born in a small town in Iowa and raised in early 20th century South Dakota, Lila lived a Cinderella childhood with a cruel stepmother. After attending Dakota Wesleyan University, she worked in a bank and then taught school until she met and married Royce Engberg. They had one child, a daughter, before Royce died.
Lila then became a missionary and taught in India for nine years. During that period, the school of which she had become the principal, was destroyed in an earthquake. She saw to its reconstruction before returning to the United...
"Lila" is the biography of the author's mother. Born in a small town in Iowa and raised in early 20th century South Dakota, Lila lived a Cinderella...
It's 1950. Two young people, very much in love with each other, are both married to someone else. Their letters to each other during the three years they had to wait until they were able to marry each other tell a tender love story. Later letters to friends and family, and to each other when they had to be apart, describe the home they bought, furnished and tended; their professional careers and travels throughout the world; their vocations and avocations; and finally their reitrement and life in the first decade of the 21st century.
It's 1950. Two young people, very much in love with each other, are both married to someone else. Their letters to each other during the three years t...
