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Hero mama : a daughter remembers the father she lost in Vietnam--and the mother who held her family together
- Title
- Hero mama : a daughter remembers the father she lost in Vietnam--and the mother who held her family together / Karen Spears Zacharias.
- Author
- Zacharias, Karen Spears.
- Publication
- New York : Morrow, [2005], ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | CT275.S6147 Z33 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "It's the 1960s and nine-year-old Karen Spears is living in a trailer in middle Georgia. Her father, David Spears, was killed in the la Drang Valley in Vietnam, and left behind three young children and a wife with a ninth-grade education. Hero Mama is the story of what happened to this Southern family in the aftermath of a soldier's death." "At first the widow Spears appeared to fall apart - turning herself into a beer-guzzling, good-time girl, while her children responded in kind. Eventually she recognized how much her children needed her and, with mule-headed tenacity, she earned her nursing degree and bought the family a real home fashioned from bricks, rising above her own flaws to forge a better life for her kids. Now Karen Spears Zacharias pays tribute to this woman of guts and determination - her Hero Mama - who battled overwhelming adversity to pull her family up and make them proud of her, and of themselves." "Hero Mama is also the story of the South, where a young girl grew up against an emotionally charged landscape of racism and bigotry, where the daughter of a fallen soldier had to face the stigma of a war nobody wanted, and where a family in crisis pulled together to achieve its own version of the American dream."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0060721480 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004054668
- OCLC
- ocm55800895
- SCSB-5159859
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries