| You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir Contributor(s): Love, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1401300111 ISBN-13: 9781401300111 Publisher: Hachette Books OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: Laura Love and her sister survived a childhood that was miserable in the best of circumstances, and nearly unspeakable in the worst. With a mentally unstable mother who was unable to cope with daily life, Laura and Lisa spent much of their young lives shuttled from one foster home to another. Those were the happy times. Despite the odds, Laura and Lisa managed to survive, and as they enter their high school years they begin to assert their independence and attempt to create their own sources of support and income so as not to be dependent on their unstable parent. It's at this time, too, that Laura, by pure chance, discovers her father, who she'd always been told had died in an accident when she was a baby. Wrenching, shocking, but ultimately hopeful, YOU AIN'T GOT NO EASTER CLOTHES will bring readers a story of growth in the most detrimental of circumstances, a young girl's attempt to make sense of her life and place in it, and a powerful emotional experience wrought in searing, unadulterated prose. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004047327 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.78" W x 8.3" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Laura Love has an uncanny knack for getting an audience to listen. Today she is beloved by fans around the world for her funk-folksy music. But Love's life wasn't always so good. Growing up in racially troubled Nebraska, Love survived a miserable childhood, shuffling among a mentally unstable mother, foster homes, and orphanages. Despite the odds, Love survived, thanks ultimately to her enormous will. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes is Love's wrenching, shocking, yet hopeful story of the survival of a deeply rooted, but broadly cultured woman. |