| fiction non-fiction memoir poetry |
| ISBN 0-9778745-5-9 |
| memoir 99 pages |
| a clever & revealing memoir |
| My mother wanted to have a talk with me. A private talk. The mere suggestion made me queasy. I assumed she had already done her part on my 12th birthday, when she left a pale pink booklet titled Now You Are Ten on my pillow. I read it cover to cover and waited for her to quiz me, but she never even hinted at it again. I concluded the pamphlet was to be treated like the work of the tooth fairy, too trivial for discussion at the dinner table, but stashed away for that rainy day my mother was always talking about. After dinner that night, Mother patted the cushion next to her on the couch and invited me to sit down. She was chummier than June Cleaver at a covered dish supper. [excerpt from "Tango, Anyone?" in Who Needs June Cleaver?] |
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| An award-winning newspaper columnist, essayist, playwright, poet, fiction writer and public radio commentator, Constance Alexander has been writing a weekly column, "Main Street," in the Murray Ledger & Times since 1989. Her work has been recognized for excellence by the Kentucky Press Association, the Pew Center for Civic Journalism and the Newspaper Association of America. A New Jersey native, she is married to Roy Davis, artist and custom coffin maker. They live in Murray, Kentucky. |
the author's experience on main street ...
| .Essays in Who Needs June Cleaver? originally appeared as newspaper columns & public radio commentaries. |
| Who Needs June Cleaver? reflects on family relationships, events, life-lessons, colorful characters, and observations that lodge in a child's memory to linger through a lifetime. |
| Who Needs June Cleaver? explores a time in which children developed a unique worldview while growing up in small town "main street" America. |
| Who Needs June Cleaver? is an insightful and multi-layered memoir based on the writer's New Jersey childhood. With rich wisdom and perspective earned through time and distance, the author explores images going back to mid-century, a time unfathomable to most American children today. Constance Alexander's engaging writing in Who Needs June Cleaver? does not flinch from difficult recollections, but offers a beautifully balanced view of an era that shaped a culture while rendering itself obsolete. |
| (c) 2012 |
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photo by Roy Davis
| This book's cover design by Andrew Davis was accepted into the 2007 "Visions From Voices" exhibit at the Kentucky Museum of Art + Craft |
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