A Question and Answer session and signing will follow and copies will be available for purchase.

Intended for all, Growing Up is the intriguing story of courageous grandparent and parent immigrants who heartily embraced their new country, the United States, yet remained inherently true to many of their cherished Old World traditions.

Acting as a cultural tour guide, Masure tells stories of what it was really like growing up with a rich Franco heritage across multiple venues of home, family, church, school, and other settings.

Lorraine Dutile Masure, a former university administrator, has lived in Maine most of her 83 years with a salty ardor she avows is incontrovertible. She joyfully enjoys presenting oral paraphrases of her book and leads Senior College classes about Broadway musicals.

Although this is her first attempt at “book writing,” she has been published a number of times locally, regionally, and once nationally. Otherwise she delights living in Maine, often penning observations of a more current nature under the supervision of her Jellicle cat, Molly.