I Remain Yours

I Remain Yours documents the past through the present by re-directing the epistolary form as a mode of cross-generational communication, exploring the reality that love and writing remain long after the end of the individual life span. Cottle collects actual postmarked love letters from 1900-1903, sent secretly between her great-grandparents while her great-grandfather returned to his parents' homeland of Sweden to serve a Mormon mission, and weaves in her own responsive love letters back to her deceased great-grandparents, written during a self-imposed 2 1/2-year mission to understand the gifts and weights of her inherited creativity. In addressing her lineage, both literally and figuratively, Cottle realizes there a fine line between the dead and the living, her past and her future families, as well as within the links of predetermined loyalty and destiny. "e;With its innovative epistolary structure, Katherine Cottle's I Remain Yours provides a fascinating window into Mormon culture-at a time when Americans have reason to be more interested in that than usual."e; -Madison Smartt Bell, novelist, author of All Souls' Rising & The Color of Night "e;An American story."e; -Clay Goss, playwright, Author of Homecookin'