Marilyn Viruet

The Oracle On Main Street Marilyn Viruet

The protagonist of The Oracle On Main Street is Margaret Bishop, a 25-year-old, in the 1950s. A beautiful southern belle, librarian aid from Mobile, Alabama, a dreamer, who gets an opportunity of a lifetime when is given the responsibility to oversee an artifact exhibit in her hometown's library with never before seen relics. Especially an old document dated back from 200 B. C. with a rare never seen before undisclosed manuscript found in the Southeastern and Gulf basins of the United States. Through this experience, she encounters a thirty-three-year-old, foreign gentleman called Marcelino. A scholar, theologian, art dealer, world traveler, with worldly connections, must of all divine wisdom that lives in the south and owns a little antique shop in Georgia called The Oracle on Main Street. Marcelino becomes Margaret's colleague, mentor, her reason for admiration and frustration all in all changing Margaret's world and the way she sees it, taking her places she has never been and indulging her vivid imagination letting her consciousness travel through different dimensions while brewing a special kind of pure love testing her courage and ability to wander in the unknown. This is an intriguing, fun story that can teach us a thing or two about how we see ourselves, humanity, and the world that surrounds us.