Cali Letters

Personal letters are on the wane since the advent of emails and textings. Bruce Mitchell and his mother, Audean Mitchell, carried on a correspondence that covered a school year, 1972-1973. He had gone to Colombia to teach school at an American high school, Colegio Bolivar, and his mother wrote him faithfully several times a month, relating to him the good and bad things that were happening to his family while he was in Cali. This is the basis of Cali Letters. Other friends and family members wrote him throughout the year and we are witness to those happenings. Should you know the Mitchells or not, these letters make fascinating reading for a way of life no longer available to a Southern family. From the introduction to the letters and Bruce Mitchell's touching and funny embellishments to the letters themselves, the reader is in for a special treat. Audean is constantly telling her son that he needs the Lord in all his behaviors and he is without fear in his quest to turn his young life around. Alas, he is looking for fulfillment in his life that had nothing to do with his mother's religious admonishments. Take a few moments to thumb through the Cali Letters and you soon will be caught in the web of these prosaic, yet fun-to-read letters.