Ever The Twain Shall Meet

Ever the Twain Shall Meet Is it possible that Rudyard Kipling was correct when he penned the famous words, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”? In this historical novel, a Maine survival story, two opposites do attract. Singly and together, Norma Twitchell and Mike Folan confront Kipling’s skeptical viewpoint. Against the backdrop of Maine and America in the 1930s and 1940s, the Yankee Twitchells and the Irish Folans forge their own paths forward. They overcome significant obstacles and challenges by the power of their mutual respect, toleration, and determination. We seek hope, we seek love; combine the two, as in this love story, and you understand Norma and Mike. In our current time of discord and partisanship, like them we can surely do better. Ever the Twain Shall Meet is the second book in a historical trilogy. Michael Connolly's first book of the trilogy, Murky Overhead, was published in 2024 and the third book of the trilogy, As the Twig is Bent,