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Last Trip Home : A Story of an Arkansas Farm Girl by Wanda Maureen Miller (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherShe Writes Press
ISBN-101631523392
ISBN-139781631523397
eBay Product ID (ePID)240069797
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Trip Home : a Story of an Arkansas Farm Girl
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Dysfunctional Families, Biographical
Publication Year2018
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorWanda Maureen Miller
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-958359
Reviews"An emotionally astute account of the oppressive confines of an unhappy family life." -- Kirkus Reviews "With a writer's voice that is sassy and vibrant, Wanda Maureen Miller's gripping narrative took me by the heart and the scruff of my neck into regions I would never otherwise have explored." --Nancy Bacal, creator and leader of The Writer's Way workshops, editor of Leonard Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, and writer/producer of RAGA, starring Ravi Shankar and George Harrison "An outrageous story of love and redemption set in the not-so-gracious South, from an exciting and completely original new voice. Last Trip Home is for people who like their sanity skewed." --Terri Cheney, author of the New York Times bestseller Manic and blogger for Psychology Today "A candid, piercing, and often funny reveal of how kith and kin in an Arkansas sharecropper shack can both maim and love. Miller is a literary sharpshooter whose memoir of her impoverished family eking by on squirrel provides riveting redneck rubbernecking." --Gali Kronenberg, former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union Tribune "In post-World War II Arkansas, Grace Marie escapes her insular past with its strict behavior codes for females. Scrubbing away drawl and shame, she is now an emancipated woman in California. Yet she feels compelled to return home repeatedly when her family desperately needs help. The tone is often dark, yet there is redemption in her rise above poverty, shameful secrets, and a violent, out-of-bounds father. The story takes the clichéd 'you can't go home again' theme and turns it into a more complicated look at community bonds, family love, and sense of duty." --Sharon Steeber, professor of English at Santa Monica College, author of The Jews, and coauthor of the Reading Faster and Understanding More series "As a black American, I approached Last Trip Home with trepidation but couldn't stop reading. I remember my parents' stories about violence from the Texas Ku Klux Klan. The characters are gut wrenchingly real, presented with both brutal honesty and humor. I got an insight into a way of thinking and living diametrically opposed to all that I've known and respected; yet I felt pity and empathy. I cheered when Grace Marie burned her husband's KKK sheet. This book shows how the world of reading can open up a young mind. I profoundly appreciate the insight and hope represented." --Judy Francis, former diplomat for the US Department of State, "An emotionally astute account of the oppressive confines of an unhappy family life."-- Kirkus Reviews "With a writer's voice that is sassy and vibrant, Wanda Maureen Miller's gripping narrative took me by the heart and the scruff of my neck into regions I would never otherwise have explored."--Nancy Bacal, creator and leader of The Writer's Way workshops, editor of Leonard Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, and writer/producer of RAGA, starring Ravi Shankar and George Harrison "An outrageous story of love and redemption set in the not-so-gracious South, from an exciting and completely original new voice. Last Trip Home is for people who like their sanity skewed."--Terri Cheney, author of the New York Times bestseller Manic and blogger for Psychology Today "A candid, piercing, and often funny reveal of how kith and kin in an Arkansas sharecropper shack can both maim and love. Miller is a literary sharpshooter whose memoir of her impoverished family eking by on squirrel provides riveting redneck rubbernecking." --Gali Kronenberg, former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union Tribune "In post-World War II Arkansas, Grace Marie escapes her insular past with its strict behavior codes for females. Scrubbing away drawl and shame, she is now an emancipated woman in California. Yet she feels compelled to return home repeatedly when her family desperately needs help. The tone is often dark, yet there is redemption in her rise above poverty, shameful secrets, and a violent, out-of-bounds father. The story takes the clichéd 'you can't go home again' theme and turns it into a more complicated look at community bonds, family love, and sense of duty." --Sharon Steeber, professor of English at Santa Monica College, author of The Jews, and coauthor of the Reading Faster and Understanding More series"As a black American, I approached Last Trip Home with trepidation but couldn't stop reading. I remember my parents' stories about violence from the Texas Ku Klux Klan. The characters are gut wrenchingly real, presented with both brutal honesty and humor. I got an insight into a way of thinking and living diametrically opposed to all that I've known and respected; yet I felt pity and empathy. I cheered when Grace Marie burned her husband's KKK sheet. This book shows how the world of reading can open up a young mind. I profoundly appreciate the insight and hope represented." --Judy Francis, former diplomat for the US Department of State, "With a writer's voice that is sassy and vibrant, Wanda Maureen Miller's gripping narrative took me by the heart and the scruff of my neck into regions I would never otherwise have explored." --Nancy Bacal, creator and leader of The Writer's Way workshops, editor of Leonard Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, and writer/producer of RAGA, starring Ravi Shankar and George Harrison "An outrageous story of love and redemption set in the not-so-gracious South, from an exciting and completely original new voice. Last Trip Home is for people who like their sanity skewed." --Terri Cheney, author of the New York Times bestseller Manic and blogger for Psychology Today "A candid, piercing, and often funny reveal of how kith and kin in an Arkansas sharecropper shack can both maim and love. Miller is a literary sharpshooter whose memoir of her impoverished family eking by on squirrel provides riveting redneck rubbernecking." --Gali Kronenberg, former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union Tribune "In post-World War II Arkansas, Grace Marie escapes her insular past with its strict behavior codes for females. Scrubbing away drawl and shame, she is now an emancipated woman in California. Yet she feels compelled to return home repeatedly when her family desperately needs help. The tone is often dark, yet there is redemption in her rise above poverty, shameful secrets, and a violent, out-of-bounds father. The story takes the clichd 'you can't go home again' theme and turns it into a more complicated look at community bonds, family love, and sense of duty." --Sharon Steeber, professor of English at Santa Monica College, author of The Jews, and coauthor of the Reading Faster and Understanding More series "As a black American, I approached Last Trip Home with trepidation but couldn't stop reading. I remember my parents' stories about violence from the Texas Ku Klux Klan. The characters are gut wrenchingly real, presented with both brutal honesty and humor. I got an insight into a way of thinking and living diametrically opposed to all that I've known and respected; yet I felt pity and empathy. I cheered when Grace Marie burned her husband's KKK sheet. This book shows how the world of reading can open up a young mind. I profoundly appreciate the insight and hope represented." --Judy Francis, former diplomat for the US Department of State
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Synopsis"Who do you thank you are, the Quane of Anglund?" That's what Grace Marie's father used to say to her whenever he thought she was getting out of her place. In her fifties now, Grace Marie is a college professor living in a beach town in California, and when she gets a phone call telling her that her father is dead, she is glad. She hopes her return for his funeral will be her "last trip home." As a young girl Grace Marie struggled to escape from poverty, her father's lecherous, controlling grip, and a husband in the Klan. Determined to get an education, she clawed her way to a comfortable life and a home with indoor toilets--but her most unexpected struggle turned out to be survivor's guilt, so she kept returning home to "fix" her family and the sharecropper shack. After her father's funeral, Grace Marie burns down the family home--only to discover that she has unexpected ties to both the land and the people in her community. She realizes she will never have a "last trip home.", After growing up on a small Arkansas farm in the 1940s and 1950s and struggling with poverty, her father's lecherous grip, and a husband in the Klan, Grace Marie Hall escaped to a life in California--but now her father has died, and she returns to Arkansas for what she hopes will be her last trip home.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.I42154L37
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