When she doesn’t, I pedal back to where she’s lying in bed, listening to music and reading the paper. When I pedal out of the room and she can’t see me anymore, she calls: Barbara Jane, where are you?Ĭome find me, Mommy. She says she has a tummy ache, doesn’t want to get out of bed. Why isn’t today like all my yesterdays? Riding my trike, I’m ringing the bell and having a good time-while waiting for Mommy to get up, waiting to go to the park. Told with true literary sensibility, this captivating memoir asks us to consider what it is that parents owe their children, and how far a child need go to make things right for her family. The story is not only of loss and resilience, but one showing the power of literature-from Little Orphan Annie to Prince Valiant to the incomparable Nancy Drew-to offer hope where there is little. Forced to keep the secret of her mother's existence from her younger brother, Barbara struggles to keep from being crushed under the weight of family secrets as she comes of age and tries to educate herself, despite her father's stance against women's education. When Barbara Bracht's mother disappears, she is left a confused child whose blue-collar father is intent upon erasing any memory of her mother.
New York Public Library Top Pick Summer 2017 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award: Silver for MemoirĢ017 National Indie Excellence Awards: FinalistĢ017 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite for MemoirĢ016 Beverly Hills Book Awards: Memoir FinalistĢ016 Readers' Favorite:Silver Medal for Non-fiction Memoir
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