What Became of Brother Bernie? A girl travels with her father in the late 1940s; learns about life and about herself. The Pug and I: The Memoirs of Oliver Martin Oliver Martin remembers the late 1960s and early 70s. My African Adventure The author travels to the Sudan in the summer of 1983. The Transient Room The author's two-week stay at a women's residence, and its results, in 1985. The Annals of Boreas the Cat A girl befriends a talking cat, and what she learns.