Crossing Kansas - Softcover

Crossing Kansas

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Diane Leatherman (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. 166, [2] pages. Illustrated cover. Signed by the author, Diane Leatherman, on the title page Includes Prologue and 34 chapters. Born in Kansas City just as her parents were emerging from the Great Depression, Diane Leatherman learned early to dread the "crossing of Kansas" when the family traveled west each summer. There were few restaurants or gas stations with clean restrooms. Nothing in those days was air-conditioned. The state was flat, hot and endless. Life has gotten easier--for most of us. With all of the problems modernization makes, still each of us have more opportunity to fully develop ourselves, especially women. Ms. Leatherman began college at a small girls school in the middle of Missouri, which her grandmother had attended a half century before, and finished a degree almost 15 years later. She has been a park ranger, teacher, worked at an "eighteenth century" dirt-level farm and has served as Executive Director of Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, Maryland. She is a member Maryland Writers Association, National Writers Union, and Publications Marketing Association. Fictionalized memoir, mature women will recognize the bright little girl who grows up to see no recourse but marriage at the end of the 1950s. When the social revolution of the 1960s manages to reach her, she begins to be restless with her role and throws her life into a spiral that imperils her and her children, yet results in a more complete person. Artikel-Nr. 83435

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