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New Author Listing Title: Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood Author: Eva Augustin Rumpf Publisher: Booklocker.com Publisher's Web Page: www.booklocker.com |
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Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood is set in the 1940s and '50s in America's most unique city. In dramatic scenes, the author re-creates World War II blackouts, Mardi Gras celebrations, segregation, polio and whooping cough epidemics, and hurricanes. She evokes a lost age of drug store soda fountains, sidewalk games, street vendors, tepee motels, radio dramas, cod liver oil, party lines, and double features at the movies. The author's moving accounts of her childhood show her struggle for identity and freedom in her large family and why she felt compelled to leave New Orleans. It was only after the floods of Hurricane Katrina wiped out much of the city that she realized how much had been lost, and she sought to reclaim her personal past.  Buy this book at Amazon.comGo Back read another listing, or choose a category to search reviews. | ||||