THE MISSION

by Hugh B. Dave ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 1960

When this short story first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post it aroused a lot of reader interest and now, in book form, it should carry its innocent appeal to those looking for a message of goodness. Six year old Marie Therese Yolande St. Juste on her long trip from Aquin, where her mother has just died, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, affects all those she meets by her disarming friendliness, courtesy and intentness on her search for her unknown father. She brings a quarrelsome family together, wakes a shopkeeper to the meanness of cheating, and, at the capital, which is terrifyingly celebrating Mardi Gras, is the means of saving a little girl's life. The child's parents learn the long-sought father was imagined by Yolande's mother and, without shattering her belief, they offer her a home. The sharing of truth, beauty and love in a modest miniscule.

Pub Date: March 3, 1960

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1960

Categories: FICTION