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by Matt Gavin (Author)
TWO TO BE REMEMBERED, author Matt Gavin's 270-page book with vintage photographs, is the very personal, touching, and gripping biography of his wife's parents, Ernest and Frederika Flissinger, a couple steeped in Dutch-Indonesian heritage, who grew up in paradisiacal settings, then suffered the terrible hardships of the Japanese invasion of Java in World War II and the subsequent Indonesian uprising. Inspired by the Flissingers' moving remembrances recounted year after year, Gavin has been able to take the reader back to a time and place rarely depicted. It is a story of miraculous survival and eventual emigration to a safe, rewarding life in America.
Author Biography
Actor-director-lyricist Matt Gavin has been writing in one form or another for more than five decades. While most of his ventures have been in the genres of film, television, and stage, his storytelling ability and his love of history made him the logical family member to document the fascinating and heart-rending lives of his wife Marguerite's parents. Spurred and supported by Marguerite and her drive to ensure her parents' story be told, Matt has made his first foray into biography and world history. He is grateful and honored to have been chosen to author this memorable saga.
