Flyover lives a memoir
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to se...
| Main Author: | Johnson, Diane, 1934- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- I. In France
- A Weekend with the General
- II. Flyover Country
- Moline, pop. 34,000
- My Moline
- Myopia
- Pastimes
- Economies
- Books
- III. Eighteenth-Century Beginnings
- How We All Descend from Greatness
- Ranna
- Anne and God
- Huts
- 1800
- John Perkins Too Sees God
- Some Stories from the Life of Catharine Perkins
- The Story of Catharine Continued
- The Inappropriate Letter
- Catharine's Romance
- The Affair of the Locket
- Rascals
- The Elusive Eleazer
- Wedding Journey
- Bloomingburg
- Women's Work : Quilts
- Eleazer the Doctor
- Sorrow
- Depression
- Wars
- IV. Modern Days
- Watseka, Chenoa
- Rich in Uncles
- Summer
- In God We Trusted...
- The Dark Shadow
- Flyover
- Mademoiselle
- California
- Writer
- Silver Screen
- Uncle Bill
- Divorce
- London
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Defeat
- Yellow Morgan
- Chagrin
- Epilogue.