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A Sugary Frosting: Growing Up In A 1960s New England Parsonage
Denis Ledoux, Martha Blowen
ASIN: B01F7UF1XS
Publisher: Soleil Press
Pages: 188

During the turbulent 1960s, what was life really like in the the US? More to the point, what was life like in a certain New England parsonage?This memoir offers a glimpse into a world that is long past. The mores of everyday life have changed as has life in a parsonage. A Sugary Frosting / Growing Up In A 1960's New England Parsonage reveals a bit of both. Especially poignant is its glimpse of an underside of being a preacher's kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister's-wife mother and of becoming yourself, a person they may not have expected their household to have produced. Relationships in this memoir are portrayed honestly and sometimes not flatteringly. A Sugary Frosting, a phrase derived from Martha Blowen's journals, is a memoir of surviving religious idealism and inherited belief to undertake to become one’s self.WHAT ...
Amazon Rating:
4 stars from 58 ratings