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Marcel's Letters

a Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Sep 15, 2017EmilyEm rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A Twin Cities graphic designer who, has always known she’ll design a type font finds inspiration in some French letters she buys in a Stillwater, MN, antique shop. Admiring the writing, but not knowing French, she imagines they are love letters. The mystery of Marcel, the letter writer, leads her on an odyssey to discover his life story and design an award-winning type font that she names for him. As a person who has worked in book publishing and is an avid genealogist this book had all the elements of a fascinating page turner for me. The local angle made it special; I knew the genealogist who helped her. Very fun.