Rhoda Bailey Warren

Appalachian Mountain Girl (eBook, ePUB)

Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One woman's "affecting and well-written" memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult ( Kirkus Reviews). Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth-but without sentimentality-Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True Confessions magazine and the pictures in the Montgomery Ward catalog-which to her seemed like visions of a fairy world. Much later, after poverty drove her family to Wyoming and then Rhoda married and moved to a small town in New York State, it seemed that her dreams of a better life had finally been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always hovered in the back roads of her memory. When she revisited her homeland, this time as a New Yorker, Rhoda found that Letcher was no longer the place she recalled-and in this vivid memoir, she contemplates the relationship between our past and our present and the ways that our childhood stays with us forever.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781613732397
• Artikelnr.: 43081653

Autorenporträt

Warren is a newspaper editor and reporter.