Thinking of Miller Place:   A Memoir of Summer Comfort

Can you imagine waking up and staring into eyes that are the exact shape and color as yours, and looking at a mouth that smiled just like yours? Where the exact words tumble out of your mouth and someone else’s with the same pitch and inflection-at the same time. Where emotional and physical feelings are known without saying anything aloud. This is only part of what being an identical twin was for Ethel Lee-Miller.

In this tender, sparkling memoir, Ethel reflects on childhood summers at her grandfather’s home in an idyllic town on the northeastern end of Long Island, NY. Carefree summers at Miller Place in the 1950s sustained Ethel and her twin sister, Eileen. Adult characters are powerful and protective, yet distant players as the twins question, explore, and observe their world from the cocoon of twinship.

Be part of this magical place and special relationship, “resting in a hammock between a childhood where we can take off our shoes and run barefoot up the hill, and the reality of today.” You don’t have to be from Long Island to escape to this enchanting oasis. Miller Place offered days filled with diving in the salty waters of the beach and evenings lit by fireflies. With her twin always by her side, Ethel savored childhood innocence while coming of age and forming secure ideals about love, beauty, home, and family.

Thinking of Miller Place has earned both prestigious Editor’s Choice and Publisher’s Choice designations from iUniverse.

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