Mimi and Maurice: A Novel, Based on a True Story

A love story based on true events, told through 382 letters between two people separated first by an ocean, then by war.

From the author of the IPPY Award-winning Margaret of Thibodaux (Silver Medal, Regional Fiction, South, 2025).

Between San Francisco and Belgian Congo, between war and silence . . .

It is 1936. Mimi lives in San Francisco, in a house she shares with her father and sister, writing letters to Maurice, a distant cousin she has never met. Maurice is in Belgian Congo, settling th...