Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidden the truth (p.89)....Fear and doubt might be mitigated or assuaged, but something even more profound was at risk. And that was trust. If so many things were not as they seemed, who had misled me? Who and what could I believe. (p. 105)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
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