Description
Jane Wyman Birks offers a lively account of her life in the 1940s as a first-year student at the University of Minnesota. In the aftermath of the Great Depression and at the start of World War II, her mother, just divorced, is raising three "latchkey" daughters in the Kenwood area of Minneapolis. It is a unique decade of big band music, teen talk, and teen values.
Here is a story of the sights, the sounds, the fears, the laughter and chatter of a family embracing small joys while coping with its own sadness in a moment of global significance. Then too comes Jane's unexpected friendship with navy cadet George Herbert Walker Bush--future president of the United States.
Walking a Good Pidgeon Toe is the candid and charming memoir of a girl stepping from youthful naivete towards womanhood in a changing world.
