The Reluctant Canary Sings - Couverture souple

Colburn, Faith A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0997267720 ISBN 13 : 9780997267723

Editeur : Prairie Wind Press, 2017

Synopsis

What do you do when the bottom falls out of your life, you can’t find love or security anywhere, and all your friends want you to sing? Bobbi Bowen lives in Cleveland. It’s 1937 in the second dip of a double-dip depression. When she leaves the apartment, she passes the Holy Rosary soup kitchen, with its straggle of shuffling men and women in their bedraggled coats. Most days she hums the new swing tunes—Cream Puff or Sing, Sing, Sing— because it seems every time she turns the radio on, she hears about another dismembered body left lying around town. At home, she ducks her parents’ fights—sometimes ducking a flying plate or saucer. So when the bank cuts her mother’s hours, she’s got one chance to keep a roof over her family’s heads—to turn her voice, her most private pleasure, into a public commodity. At the end of her sophomore year, she forever gives up her dream of art school to spend her nights singing in nightclubs. Even though she’s able to make enough to support her family, security remains an illusion she can’t seem to capture no matter how hard she tries. Is she making herself bait? Will her father’s betrayal destroy her? If you liked Kristin Hanna's Four Winds, with its portrayal of human resilience in the face of trauma, you'll like The Reluctant Canary Sings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I've been a truck driver, a farmer, an environmentalist, and a mother of sons all grown now. I'm a hugger of trees, lover of old folks, history, quirky science, and books. My mother's parents were restaurateurs and I like to try new recipes, although they don't always come out the way I expect. I'm deeply concerned about human resiliency and how families and communities contribute to it-or not. Because I grew up in one, I'm particularly interested in extended families who have close relationships with the places where they live. As a farm kid, I got a hands-on introduction to one three-quarter-section piece of land-not by riding over it on a tractor, but by walking every hill and fencerow. It's provided me with a strong concern for the health of that land and the entire planet. I must have my hands in the dirt, so every summer I disappear into my garden(s) where I grow fruits and vegetables as well as flowers.. I live in town now, but my favorite parts of my double corner lot are the native grass and wildflower plots. They're nearly self-sustaining now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prairie Wind Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0997267720
• ISBN 13: 9780997267723
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 330
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