Soon Come

About the Book

Soon come in Jamaica means, don´t worry, be happy, and was the title of the newsletter Beth and Mike Ohlsson sent home during a Peace Corps tour in Jamaica. It is two years since traumatic events forced Beth to leave Jamaica, the Peace Corps, and husband Mike. Now alone, she decides to come to grips with the past by retreating to her cabin at Bent Needle Lake in Northern Minnesota to write a book to exorcise her Jamaican duppies (ghosts).

Actually, SOON COME is two interwoven stories: One is Beth´s story of two middle-aged people chucking a comfortable life to join the Peace Corps and her role in the events that have been haunting her. The other story is of her summer of writing and meeting Nick Faber, a college instructor, who rents a neighboring cabin. The stories shift between the sharply contrasted worlds of serene Bent Needle Lake and turbulent Jamaica.

About the Author

Don Arneson has been a teacher, a magazine editor, a writer of fiction, and a playwright. He is the author of two children’s books, Arnie, Knight of the Day and Doing Something Nice, Inc. and Other Plays for Kids. His play Golden Wedding was a winner of the Mid-West Playwrights Program. Another play, Finnegan’s Wake, was a runner-up at the Brooklyn Repertory Theatre Playwriting Contest. Joyce Arneson has for years managed a travel agency and has written for a travel publication. In addition, Don and Joyce were members of the U.S. Peace Corps. They live in Prior Lake, Minnesota.