Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found - Softcover

Harper's Bazaar A novelistic vision of a life with both hope and heartache to spare. The Denver Post Heart-wrenching, vividly remembered, and shockingly real. Frank McCourt author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis The unblinking look of one child at a hard world. Written gloriously and movingly. Newsweek A standout. Daily News (New York) A phenomenal debut. Hope Edelman author of Motherless Daughters A beautifully written memoir -- utterly absorbing, alternately heartbreaking and inspiring.

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. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. 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. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. 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....