It was only after many decades of experience and study in this lifetime that she gradually learned how to process both the pain and the wisdom of those memories.

Through personal memoir, scholarship, poetic verse, and mystical insight, Marlene and Me teaches us that our ancestors are not only present in our history, epics, art, dreams, and aspirations, but also in the mysteries of our sub-conscious minds.

Woven throughout Eugenia’s own modern-day experiences in North and South America, her memories of other lives zig zag across time and place including Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1940s, the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s, the streets of Bangladesh in the 14th century, and medieval England in the 13th century.