WINCHESTER, Va., June 28, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Joanna was a lonely, curious, and spirited young girl who spent her childhood in a complicated web of a loose-knit family. As she grew up, she struggled to understand her world and go back to where she was welcomed and sheltered. In the pages of the new book, Calico Jam, author Joanne Greene tells her unforgettable story.
Joanna was born during the Great Depression when children were tolerated but not taken seriously. Her journal became her companion and comforter in a world of strained family relationships and elusive meanings. As she tried to grapple with her part in a family tragedy that slowly destroyed her mother, she sought solace from her maternal grandmother who had years before been exiled from the family circle. At the same time, she felt exiled herself and became fixed on her grandmother's young handicapped son, her increasingly absent father, and memories of her lost brother Toby. Joanna found an unexpected tutor in Alonzo, the remarkable husband of her grandmother, whose wisdom and humor pulled her back to a safer place.
A fascinating fusion of fact and fiction, Calico Jam is a funny and heartbreaking reckoning with one woman's past that, at its crux, is not only the groundwork of her personal history but the rock of her existence.
Calico Jam * By Joanne Greene
Publication Date: March 8, 2005
Trade Paperback; $20.99; 175 pages; 1-4134-7607-4
Cloth Hardback; $30.99; 175 pages; 1-4134-7608-2
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