Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Show Me The Way To Go Home
- Publisher
- Bunim & Bannigan
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2014
- Category
- Personal Memoirs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781933480213
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
With near total recall, the author recreates what it was like, from a child’s point of view, to be tied to a charming, naïve single mother. The years are 1936 to 1948; the milieu, the New Jersey Oranges. Navigating the hardships of the Great Depression and the mysteries of world conflict, young Dorothy Jane asks one teacher if a war is ever ‘off.’ Show Me The Way To Go Home follows the unanchored, at times rakish, existence of a feckless mother and innocent daughter who rarely spending more than a few seasons at one address. It is a tale of resiliency and courage, of a child’s growing awareness of her predicament, and her gradually achieved maturity.
About the author
Dorothy-Jane (Deejay) Cullen Schwartz, a retired kindergarten teacher, lives with her husband of fifty years in a small town in New Jersey. They have two daughters and two granddaughters. Deejay is a life-long anti-war activist.