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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

Jennifer Lauck

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 7557 Users | 615 Reviews

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Original Title:	Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
ISBN:	0671042564 (ISBN13: 9780671042561)
Edition Language:	English

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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....

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Title	:	Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Author	:	Jennifer Lauck
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2001 by Washington Square Press (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir

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It took me almost 5 years to get around to this book, but I "enjoyed" (not sure that's the right word, given the depressing nature of this book) it. I appreciated that Lauck wrote the book as if she were still a child, and I think that helped her tell the story. For me, however, it made this book much more depressing because she is so totally powerless. One thing which bothered me throughout was her misuse of me/I. I know she's supposed to be a child and it may have been intentionally done, but

I don't know what all of the hype was about and to be completely honest I question the authenticity of this memoir. It came off an overdramatized whine fest and pity party by a bitter middle aged woman unable to come to terms with her childhood seeking attention.1. While she claims her stepmother was evil I failed to see this noticing only that the stepmother belongs to some crazy cult, forces the Lauck children to join this cult, and believes New Age Whackos can cure her gravely ill husband

As a member of the club of adoptees and persons who were in the "system", this is a deeply penetrating memoir. It brings up disturbing memories, but those that need to be exorcized. I started a recollection of my life and called it 'a child still waits'...this memoir gets so close it's scary. I only know of one person who might grasp what this meant to me to read another person's young painful and redemptive survival. She will know who she is. If she hasn't read this, she should. I did't find



What do I think? I think, "was Deb out of her flipping mind??!!" Was it just the times, the 1970's cult era? I mean what the h*ll was going on in this kid's life? Jennifer Lauck writes of her childhood, and it is disturbing. She is praised by critics for her ability to write in the voice of a child. I agree, she does this well. I've got lots of questions, but I guess if she wanted to fill in the blanks she would have done so. I mean, just stuff that sticks in my mind like, were the teeth she got

Hated it. Pretty much the most boring, torturous book I have ever read. Although compared by people to Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes (I have no idea why), it's not even in the same solar system. Glad to see the New York Times book reviewer agreed with me - even if Oprah didn't.

Very well written account of a dear little girl whose life turns upside down. I was torn whether to turn the page or not. I found my self saying F#*@ you Deb right along with Jenny, with more intonation each time until it almost became a cheer.