With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Lauck\'s memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s, and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a Childhood lost.
But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child\'s will to survive takes flight.....
Even her mother\'s pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek.
To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles.
Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck\'s incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a Childhood lost.
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Lauck\'s memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s, and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a Childhood lost