Growing Up Mad in the South (eBook)

Stories, Poems, and Other Aberrations

Bonnie Henderson Schell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
262 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-9868898-1-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Growing Up Mad in the South is set in Atlanta, GA, during the 1950s and '60s, when racism, sexism, and personal salvation were lurking behind "e;Well bless your heart."e; Diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17, the Mad narrator struggles with both her aberrant senses and righteous anger at a society that fails to value everyone. From a toddler learning language to an adolescent trying on love, she flowers into a creative adult who finds grace writing for a literary magazine in an all-girls college. With a widowed Methodist mother and a protective, Hard-Shell Baptist Granny, the narrator's upbringing is shaped by the lyrics of gospel music. Bonnie Schell manages to confront "e;Should,"e; "e;Keep Quiet,"e; and "e;White Only"e; with lyricism and laughter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Schlagworte: Atlanta during integration • Atlanta in 1950 - 60s • coming of age in the South • Girls College in South • growing up Gospel songs • mental illness in the 50s • racism in the South • sexism in the 50s • Southern memoir
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9868898-1-8 / 9798986889818