The Cobbler's Last: A True Story of Hard Times, War, and the Journey of a Maryland Girl Who Lived Over a Shoe Store

Mollee Kruger

Maryben Books

Ladies First: Rhymes & Times of the Presidents' Wives & Other Female Fantasies

Literature & Fiction

Kruger, Mollee

Poetry

In Port of Call, a long-awaited sequel to Mollee Kruger’s memoir,( The Cobbler’s Last), the 90-year-old poet/essayist turns to her travels as a 20th century female writer and dwells on the myriad distractions that can keep women authors (and men too) from reaching their ports of call. As a small-town homebody who never expected to venture beyond the murky confines of industrial Baltimore harbor, the author invites readers to share her quirky adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia. En route, she lands in a wacky advertising agency and must choose between marrying or following a career that may lead nowhere. Mollee Kruger has written more than an ordinary travel book; it is a humorous but deeply wise exploration of life’s destinations along the way. Funny and compassionate, Kruger lets her readers know that she has clocked a staggering number of knots (miles for landlubbers.) Port of Call successfully navigates the choppy seas of advertising, journalism, poetry, and politics as well as marriage and homemaking. Tying it all together is a powerful love story that summons the reader to a hopeful and welcoming shore.

Port of Call: Memories of an Ancient Mariner

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

In A Collector's Item, nonagenarian Mollee Kruger unleashes once more the award-winning humor and wisdom that have appealed to readers throughout her long life. With unflagging skill, the internationally recognized writer unpacks a steamer trunk filled with Americana. Contents include a novella, short stories, essays, and even localized minutes recording the birth of the U.S. Constitution. Her wry essays provide hilarious advice to would-be writers. Among her "anecdotal what-nots," she pokes gentle fun at what she calls the "pixies of the sixties" and the mindset of some folks in the Over Thirty crowd. Kruger's title novella, A Collector's Item, is more than a Covid tale of a fading Silent Generation. She explores the resilience of two elderly friends and their struggle for mutual acceptance while facing the restraints of career women during the late twentieth century. Her pithy short stories help us identify generational clashes in our own lives, the duties of family, and the challenges of our friendships. Following on the heels of Port of Call: Memories of an Ancient Mariner, Mollee Kruger continues to remind us that the gift of being alive is in itself the rarest of all our keepsakes.

A Collector’s Item

Humor & Satire

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