Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

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.

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....

Author: Jennifer Lauck
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.44w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9780671042561
ISBN10: 0671042564
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures