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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

by Jennifer Lauck

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With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.

The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White; and their mother, who called her little daughter Sunshine and embraced Jackie Kennedy's sense of style. Through a child's eyes, the skies of Carson City were forever blue, and life was perfect — a world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles.

Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with hairspray, powder, and a kiss on the cheek...But soon, everything Jennifer has come to love and rely on begins to crumble, sending her on a roller coaster of loss and loneliness. In a world unhinged by tragedy, where beautiful mothers die and families are warped by more than they can bear, a young girl must transcend a landscape of pain and mistreatment to discover her richest resource: her own unshakable will to survive.

Review:

"The unblinking look of one child at a hard world. Written gloriously and movingly." Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis

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"A beautifully written memoir — utterly absorbing, alternately heartbreaking and inspiring." Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters

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"Heart-wrenching, vividly remembered, and shockingly real." The Denver Post

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"A phenomenal debut." Daily News (New York)

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"A novelistic vision of a life with both hope and heartache to spare." Harper's Bazaar

Review:

"A standout." Newsweek

Synopsis:

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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About the Author

Jennifer Lauck lives with her husband and son in Portland, Oregon, where she is a full-time writer at work on the sequel to Blackbird.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780671042561

Author:

Lauck, Jennifer

Publisher:

Washington Square Press

Location:

New York

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

California

Subject:

Biography

Subject:

Women

Subject:

Journalists

Subject:

Abandoned children

Subject:

Childhood Memoir

Subject:

Autobiography/Literary

Subject:

Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Subject:

General Biography

Subject:

Lauck, Jennifer - Childhood and youth

Subject:

Biography-Childhood Memoir

Subject:

Biography-Women

Copyright:

2001

Edition Description:

B102

Series Volume:

368/March 2001

Publication Date:

20010831

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

432

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.31 in 12.95 oz

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Product details 432 pages Washington Square Press - 2012-09-17 English 9780671042561 Reviews:

"Review" by Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, "The unblinking look of one child at a hard world. Written gloriously and movingly."

"Review" by Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters, "A beautifully written memoir — utterly absorbing, alternately heartbreaking and inspiring."

"Review" by The Denver Post, "Heart-wrenching, vividly remembered, and shockingly real."

"Review" by Daily News (New York), "A phenomenal debut."

"Review" by Harper's Bazaar, "A novelistic vision of a life with both hope and heartache to spare."

"Review" by Newsweek, "A standout."

"Synopsis" by Simon and Schuster, 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....