Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely...
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To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671042561 (0671042564)
ASIN: 671042564
Publish date: September 1st 2001
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
This is an absolutely powerful, heartbreaking and intense book but it is an easy read. Definitely want to read the sequel Still Waters!
Lauck has an amazing story to tell about five or six years of her life, starting when she was age 5 and her mother's health went from bad to worse. The story was gripping, and I couldn't put it down.I did struggle with the author's voice, especially in the first part of the book where she is writing...
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