Max Harrick Shenk

Meeting Margo and Margo Moves in Max Harrick Shenk

"I love Margo LeDoux. I always have and I always will. I loved her, really, from the moment I set eyes on her: Tuesday morning, August 28, 1967, in Miss Peterson's second grade class, General John F. Reynolds Elementary School, Quaker Valley, PA..." From the author: A prequel to my coming-of-age novels You Don't Think She Is and Meeting Dennis Wilson, Meeting Margo tells the story of how seven-year-old Brian Pressley met and became best friends with Quebecoise tomboy Margo LeDoux. "Meeting Margo" was published as a Kindle edition in February 2017. For this PRINT edition, I have added a second novella, "Margo Moves In." Together, the two novellas carry reader and the plot to the beginning of my novel "You Don't Think She Is." My published novels evolved from a sprawling multi-binder mass of prose which I've both alluded to in those books and mined for short stories. In re-reading that work, I thought "You know, this isn't BAD..." At the same time, readers of "You Don't Think She Is" and "Meeting Dennis Wilson" kept telling me that they "missed the characters" and wanted more. So here's more!