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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Show Me The Way To Go Home

by (author) Dorothy Schwartz

Publisher
Bunim & Bannigan
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • 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.

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