The Story
From escaping a religious cult to caring for FDR’s grandchildren, homesteading the American West, and discovering the world, Marian Rietman lived a life she was never supposed to have.
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About the Book
One Slice of Time tells the story of Marian Rietman, a woman whose life carried her from a restrictive religious childhood into a world far larger than the one she had been taught to expect. Along the way came family, hardship, homesteading, encounters with history, and an enduring curiosity about people and places beyond the horizon.
Drawn from Marian’s own writings, family records, photographs, and memories, the book follows an ordinary woman through an extraordinary stretch of the twentieth century. Her story is both deeply personal and unmistakably American, shaped by resilience, independence, humor, and a determination to experience life on her own terms.
John "Reety" Rietman 