Blackbird, Jennifer Lauck
Blackbird, Jennifer Lauck
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Blackbird
A Childhood Lost and Found

Author: Jennifer Lauck

Narrator: Jennifer Lauck

Abridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2000


Synopsis

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....

About Jennifer Lauck

Jennifer Lauck is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Blackbird and its sequel, Still Waters. She lives with her husband, son, and daughter in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 13, 2010

Is it wrong to review my own book? Heck no! I wrote it. Who better than me to speak about it? What Blackbird is: a view into my own experience of childhood at a time when all I could do was be a first person, present tense witness. I wrote Blackbird from a place of longing to love and be loved as we......more

Goodreads review by Amy on March 18, 2009

i'm not sure if anyone even reads my reviews so i'm not sure why i write them. i'm on page 222 of this book and it is breaking my heart so much that i'm torn between quitting reading the book or hurrying up to finish it in hopes that it gets better. Knowing that this is the author's memoir and that t......more

Goodreads review by Anna on August 02, 2017

I am fascinated by survival stories, as a survivor myself. It interests me to look into someone else's experience. As children we just don't always understand what is going on. Yet you do your best to survive and make sense of your life. How someone else managed is interesting to me. I may have arrived......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on August 06, 2007

Loved this book. It was like a huge wallop of a punch to my stomach though. Jennifer Lauck’s memoir really got to me emotionally; it was a book that I thought about for a long time after I read it. She shows a remarkable resilience for suffering what she did. Contributed to changing my beliefs about......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on February 24, 2013

Memoirs by women are my favorite type of book to read. This book is written from a child's perspective which takes some getting used to. That said, her writing is very good. It is a story of childhood innocence and survival. Her story reminds you of your childhood and how vulnerable a child is to th......more