An American Childhood by Annie DillardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow! What a delight this memoir of growing up as a precocious, perspicacious young lady. The book is dream-like in its definite and affected retelling of moments and memories in short chapter vignettes. This includes family life with a father yearning for the raucous life of New Orleans and the tranquility of river travel and a cynical, wry mother that reminds me of the one in Once I was a Teenager: Growing up in the 50s and 60s in Australia and beyond. Annie recalls being snowed in for Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950
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