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Wings of Change

A great read! The characters in Titia Bozuwa's "Wings of Change" are purported to come from her home town of Wakefield, NH. That may be so, but they must all have been born in Thornton Wilder's Grover's Corner! Bozuwa's book not only shares the colors of New England's towns and personalities with Wilder's "Our Town", but she shares Wilder's uncanny ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Chapter after chapter she paints vignettes of life which make us smile or laugh outright. Many bring tears to our eyes. And at the end we are sad that there are no more chapters! Has Thornton Wilder been reborn?

Alexander ter Weele

Titia Bozuwa’s memoir Wings of Change should be read by anyone who has ever left home in search of home. Her tale begins in Holland in the 1950’s, when as a newlywed she and her husband emigrate to the United States. With a mix of trepidation and great faith, Bozuwa joins her optimistic and adventure-loving husband in his dream of practicing general medicine in small town New England.

Through the lens of her Dutch background, Bozuwa shares keen insights on America’s openness and freedom, revels in the generosity and eccentricity of her New Hampshire neighbors, and makes wry observations about the ways in which cultures collide. Through her story-telling the reader is always aware of Bozuwa’s two cultures: the more formal social structures of her beloved Holland and the beauty and promise of her new home in rural Wakefield.

Wings of Change is a must-read for anyone who has felt “transatlantic schizophrenia.” In a wise and compassionate voice, Bozuwa shares her struggle to belong — defining herself as an American citizen while holding in her heart the lessons of her homeland.

Lysa James, poet and writing instructor.

Titia Bozuwa of Wakefield writes extraordinary memoirs. It helps that she has led an extraordinary life, but it takes a special talent - a gift really - to tap memory, sort through the details, translate those details into language, order that language into meaning. And - this is tricky - present the story she has both lived and recreated in a way that will fascinate readers. If you're movie star or a famous politician, people are fascinated by you. Therefore they will be fascinated by your story, even if it's not particularly well-written or insightful. Titia Bozuwa is not famous yet, though she has expanded her fan base with each book, and this third one, Wings of Change, will expand it exponentially.

Think of her life, so far, as clay dug from a riverbank, the raw materials of story. In her first book, Joan: A Mother's Memoir, she told the heart-wrenching story of the darkest time of her life, the death of her 29-year-old daughter from breast cancer. She scooped some clay, put it on the wheel and began to work it. Maybe she didn't know, at first, whether she was making a cup or vase or freeform sculpture, but she knew she had something in her hands that deserved her attention. Published in 2000, Joan is a little book, just 78 pages, highly focused, intensely personal and yet gloriously universal. People we love will die as Joan did, in the prime of her life, and what is a mother to do with that experience, those feelings? This mother wrote about them - honestly, gracefully, insightfully. Joan showed how such tragedy, while devastating, can also be transforming.

Once Bozuwa discovered how strongly readers responded to her voice, ho could she resist another dip into the clay? Her second book, In the Shadow of the Cathedral, taps her experience growing up during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She was 8 when the Germans invaded, 13 when they were driven out. Her home, Breda, became a war zone with tanks on the streets, neighbors killed before her eyes, Jewish schoolmates vanished. In the Shadow of the Cathedral, a medium-sized book of about 200 pages, offered an account of World War II from an unusual perspective - a child's playful, clear-eyed perspective - one that, perhaps, even the biggest World War II buffs had not seen before.

With Wings of Change: A Dutch Immigrant's Journey, she works the biggest lump of clay so far. Not quite 300 pages, this book covers 30 years of her adult life, beginning in 1957 when she and her husband - the handsome Dr. Gijs Bozuwa - left Holland for the United States. Titia makes the trip seven months pregnant with Joan. The story ends in 1987 with Joan's funeral.

Rebecca Rule, The Concord Monitor. February 18, 2007

In the Shadow of the Cathedral

Thank you for the gift of your book. What a courageous and chilling story, rendered with such insight.

Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River

The ways in which you have preserved the voice of the child while telling the story as an adult is remarkable for its purity and frankness. I was able to linger upon paragraphs and visualize the streets around your home. You created as vivid a setting as I have encountered as a reader. Still, I do not believe that you either indulged in romanticizing, nor do I think you were using the work to exorcise your nightmares and demons. That’s what I mean by the purity of your writing.
The book equally moved one of my colleagues in the English department. She and I enjoyed a wonderful discussion of it.

The test of a good piece of writing is its temporal impact. The test of a great work, for me, is its lingering shadow and ability to effect a response, long after the book has been read. I think I continued to read this book as I walked through the winter into spring.
Thank you for having the words to give life to the past.

Rosemary A. Zurawel, PhD
Middle School Director, Berwick Academy, S.Berwick, ME

In the Shadow of the Cathedral is essential reading for anyone looking for an expanded understanding of World War II. The struggle for liberation extended far beyond the hostile fire of the front. For five long years, Bozuwa and countless others lived at the whim of a psychopathic regime. Likewise, liberation did not come soon enough for Carrie Goldstein and many others. Bozuwa breathes life back into the casualty counts and history book tallies. And when we meet the victims of this horror in flesh and blood, it brings the true scope of the tragedy of war into harrowing focus in a way pure facts and figures never could.

Shawn Macomber is a reporter and staff writer for The American Spectator.

Titia Bozuwa’s narrative about the terror and courage, the torrents of darkness and hope that were the essence of her childhood in Nazi occupied Holland, is a prism of the most grave and simple truths about endurance. I was thrilled by its simplicity, its deliberate, graceful speed, and the bare bones of feeling allowing shafts of gaiety and mystery bursting through the horror… How easy the prose, how lucid, how like breathing it seemed to me…Almost a poem this book; a journey of a soul, a village, a people in counterpoint to the evil all about.

Ned O’Gorman has published six collections of poetry and four books of prose, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, and The Paris Review.

“My son (High School senior) kept taking the book off my night stand and read it in three days. He just ‘ate it for breakfast’ as they say. He was very quiet afterward and I think you have done what no one else has been able to do. You gave him the very human side of war. Not the guns, not the battle plans, not even the soldiers’ human side, but the regular people’s experience of the horribleness of war. He wants very much to study history, especially military history.”

Andy Costello, Bedford, Mass.

“In the Shadow of the Cathedral is a story of choices- to join the Nazis or the Underground or to pretend neutrality and work clandestinely against the occupiers. Titia had the choice of watering down a German tank’s gasoline or not. She could cower in her home or go out into the changed city, following her curiosity, summoning her courage. She could give in to hatred or move beyond it. She was a wise, brave little girl – as wise and brave as the woman she grew up to be, a writer who neither exaggerates nor sugarcoats. She has a unique story to tell and she tells it with simple brilliance, compassion, and unwavering honesty. This is what memoir should be.”

Rebecca Rule, Sunday Concord Monitor. October 10, 2004.

“A beautiful portrait of a sweet, intelligent, curious, open end extremely sensitive child. A child who allowed her soul to be touched, who was open to the beauty of nature and the mystery that reaches beyond the mundane.”

(translated from Dutch) Myra Pieterson, psychotherapist.

“That wonderful blonde blue eyed mischievous tom boy who can see, hear, smell, feel everything and everybody she encounters, who filters the world through those wonderful sensitive sensors. I who am generally a fast reader took quite a while I was so constantly moved by the ability to evoke such deep feeling. Titia Bozuwa is a gifted writer. Certainly the highest compliment a fellow writer can give.”

Henry S Maxfield Sr. Author of Legacy of a Spy.

“In the Shadow of the Cathedral is a beautifully written and fascinating memoir …It provides a unique historical perspective on Nazi cruelty by telling us about the lives of those who had to live under their rule. Especially heartbreaking are Bozuwa’s stories about her Jewish school friends, who gradually disappeared from her life and were ultimately deported to the concentration camps.”

Robin Lent, Teacher of English and Womens’ Studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Joan, A Mother's Memoir

Titia Bozuwa writes with great courage and wisdom about the death of her daughter, Joan, who - through Titia's words - becomes increasingly vibrant and passionate as she lives her last few months with dignity and rage, with sorrow and grace. Joan's compassion reverberates - transforming not only her family, but also the small town where she grew up.

Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River

The photography of family members and some floral stills are beautiful and add to the elegance of this brief, but effecitve, book.

Writer's Digest


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	Wings of Change A great read! The characters in Titia Bozuwa's "Wings of Change" are purported to come from her home town of Wakefield, NH. That may be so, but they must all have been born in Thornton Wilder's Grover's Corner! Bozuwa's book not only shares the colors of New England's towns and personalities with Wilder's "Our Town", but she shares Wilder's uncanny ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Chapter after chapter she paints vignettes of life which make us smile or laugh outright. Many bring tears to our eyes. And at the end we are sad that there are no more chapters! Has Thornton Wilder been reborn? Alexander ter Weele Titia Bozuwa’s memoir Wings of Change should be read by anyone who has ever left home in search of home. Her tale begins in Holland in the 1950’s, when as a newlywed she and her husband emigrate to the United States. With a mix of trepidation and great faith, Bozuwa joins her optimistic and adventure-loving husband in his dream of practicing general medicine in small town New England. Through the lens of her Dutch background, Bozuwa shares keen insights on America’s openness and freedom, revels in the generosity and eccentricity of her New Hampshire neighbors, and makes wry observations about the ways in which cultures collide. Through her story-telling the reader is always aware of Bozuwa’s two cultures: the more formal social structures of her beloved Holland and the beauty and promise of her new home in rural Wakefield. Wings of Change is a must-read for anyone who has felt “transatlantic schizophrenia.” In a wise and compassionate voice, Bozuwa shares her struggle to belong — defining herself as an American citizen while holding in her heart the lessons of her homeland. Lysa James, poet and writing instructor. Titia Bozuwa of Wakefield writes extraordinary memoirs. It helps that she has led an extraordinary life, but it takes a special talent - a gift really - to tap memory, sort through the details, translate those details into language, order that language into meaning. And - this is tricky - present the story she has both lived and recreated in a way that will fascinate readers. If you're movie star or a famous politician, people are fascinated by you. Therefore they will be fascinated by your story, even if it's not particularly well-written or insightful. Titia Bozuwa is not famous yet, though she has expanded her fan base with each book, and this third one, Wings of Change, will expand it exponentially. Think of her life, so far, as clay dug from a riverbank, the raw materials of story. In her first book, Joan: A Mother's Memoir, she told the heart-wrenching story of the darkest time of her life, the death of her 29-year-old daughter from breast cancer. She scooped some clay, put it on the wheel and began to work it. Maybe she didn't know, at first, whether she was making a cup or vase or freeform sculpture, but she knew she had something in her hands that deserved her attention. Published in 2000, Joan is a little book, just 78 pages, highly focused, intensely personal and yet gloriously universal. People we love will die as Joan did, in the prime of her life, and what is a mother to do with that experience, those feelings? This mother wrote about them - honestly, gracefully, insightfully. Joan showed how such tragedy, while devastating, can also be transforming. Once Bozuwa discovered how strongly readers responded to her voice, ho could she resist another dip into the clay? Her second book, In the Shadow of the Cathedral, taps her experience growing up during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She was 8 when the Germans invaded, 13 when they were driven out. Her home, Breda, became a war zone with tanks on the streets, neighbors killed before her eyes, Jewish schoolmates vanished. In the Shadow of the Cathedral, a medium-sized book of about 200 pages, offered an account of World War II from an unusual perspective - a child's playful, clear-eyed perspective - one that, perhaps, even the biggest World War II buffs had not seen before. With Wings of Change: A Dutch Immigrant's Journey, she works the biggest lump of clay so far. Not quite 300 pages, this book covers 30 years of her adult life, beginning in 1957 when she and her husband - the handsome Dr. Gijs Bozuwa - left Holland for the United States. Titia makes the trip seven months pregnant with Joan. The story ends in 1987 with Joan's funeral. Rebecca Rule, *The Concord Monitor. February 18, 2007 In the Shadow of the Cathedral Thank you for the gift of your book. What a courageous and chilling story, rendered with such insight. Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River* The ways in which you have preserved the voice of the child while telling the story as an adult is remarkable for its purity and frankness. I was able to linger upon paragraphs and visualize the streets around your home. You created as vivid a setting as I have encountered as a reader. Still, I do not believe that you either indulged in romanticizing, nor do I think you were using the work to exorcise your nightmares and demons. That’s what I mean by the purity of your writing. The book equally moved one of my colleagues in the English department. She and I enjoyed a wonderful discussion of it. The test of a good piece of writing is its temporal impact. The test of a great work, for me, is its lingering shadow and ability to effect a response, long after the book has been read. I think I continued to read this book as I walked through the winter into spring. Thank you for having the words to give life to the past. Rosemary A. Zurawel, PhD Middle School Director, Berwick Academy, S.Berwick, ME In the Shadow of the Cathedral is essential reading for anyone looking for an expanded understanding of World War II. The struggle for liberation extended far beyond the hostile fire of the front. For five long years, Bozuwa and countless others lived at the whim of a psychopathic regime. Likewise, liberation did not come soon enough for Carrie Goldstein and many others. Bozuwa breathes life back into the casualty counts and history book tallies. And when we meet the victims of this horror in flesh and blood, it brings the true scope of the tragedy of war into harrowing focus in a way pure facts and figures never could. Shawn Macomber is a reporter and staff writer for The American Spectator. Titia Bozuwa’s narrative about the terror and courage, the torrents of darkness and hope that were the essence of her childhood in Nazi occupied Holland, is a prism of the most grave and simple truths about endurance. I was thrilled by its simplicity, its deliberate, graceful speed, and the bare bones of feeling allowing shafts of gaiety and mystery bursting through the horror… How easy the prose, how lucid, how like breathing it seemed to me…Almost a poem this book; a journey of a soul, a village, a people in counterpoint to the evil all about. *Ned O’Gorman has published six collections of poetry and four books of prose, and his work has appeared in The* New Yorker, New York Times, and The Paris Review. “My son (High School senior) kept taking the book off my night stand and read it in three days. He just ‘ate it for breakfast’ as they say. He was very quiet afterward and I think you have done what no one else has been able to do. You gave him the very human side of war. Not the guns, not the battle plans, not even the soldiers’ human side, but the regular people’s experience of the horribleness of war. He wants very much to study history, especially military history.” Andy Costello, Bedford, Mass.** “In the Shadow of the Cathedral is a story of choices- to join the Nazis or the Underground or to pretend neutrality and work clandestinely against the occupiers. Titia had the choice of watering down a German tank’s gasoline or not. She could cower in her home or go out into the changed city, following her curiosity, summoning her courage. She could give in to hatred or move beyond it. She was a wise, brave little girl – as wise and brave as the woman she grew up to be, a writer who neither exaggerates nor sugarcoats. She has a unique story to tell and she tells it with simple brilliance, compassion, and unwavering honesty. This is what memoir should be.” Rebecca Rule, Sunday Concord Monitor. October 10, 2004. “A beautiful portrait of a sweet, intelligent, curious, open end extremely sensitive child. A child who allowed her soul to be touched, who was open to the beauty of nature and the mystery that reaches beyond the mundane.” (translated from Dutch) Myra Pieterson, psychotherapist. “That wonderful blonde blue eyed mischievous tom boy who can see, hear, smell, feel everything and everybody she encounters, who filters the world through those wonderful sensitive sensors. I who am generally a fast reader took quite a while I was so constantly moved by the ability to evoke such deep feeling. Titia Bozuwa is a gifted writer. Certainly the highest compliment a fellow writer can give.” Henry S Maxfield Sr. Author of Legacy of a Spy. “In the Shadow of the Cathedral is a beautifully written and fascinating memoir …It provides a unique historical perspective on Nazi cruelty by telling us about the lives of those who had to live under their rule. Especially heartbreaking are Bozuwa’s stories about her Jewish school friends, who gradually disappeared from her life and were ultimately deported to the concentration camps.” Robin Lent, Teacher of English and Womens’ Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Joan, A Mother's Memoir Titia Bozuwa writes with great courage and wisdom about the death of her daughter, Joan, who - through Titia's words - becomes increasingly vibrant and passionate as she lives her last few months with dignity and rage, with sorrow and grace. Joan's compassion reverberates - transforming not only her family, but also the small town where she grew up. Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River The photography of family members and some floral stills are beautiful and add to the elegance of this brief, but effecitve, book. *Writer's Digest*

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