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    Janie & Blanche: or How To Move Past Your Origins and Not Kill Your Mother in the Process
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    Janie & Blanche: or How To Move Past Your Origins and Not Kill Your Mother in the Process

    By Lucy Beam Hoffman

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    Janie is a small-town southern girl who deeply wants more out of life than working for a man who lives to humiliate his employees. Her mama prefers that Janie stay cooped up in the small southern town and appreciate everything Blanche (mama) ever did for her. Janie must choose between her uneducated mama and beautiful (but dumb)friend, Mercy, or Janie's pursuit of an education. Blanche and Mercy exist in a mind-numbing sameness day after day. Choosing to stay with the ones she loves or leave them behind as she seeks more for herself is precarious and lonely.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucy Beam Hoffman
    Release dateJul 31, 2012
    ISBN9781476422046
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    Janie & Blanche: or How To Move Past Your Origins and Not Kill Your Mother in the Process
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    Lucy Beam Hoffman

    Lucy is one of five children - smack in the middle. She grew up in the country of North Carolina, married at 17, dropped out of high school, got married, had two wonderful boys, had thyroid cancer, got divorced, and moved - in the space of 5 years. She later worked at various jobs, married again to an amazingly supportive man, had one more son (wow -what she would have missed without him), became a business owner together with her husband, which they still own. (Big breath) She returned to college at the age of 47, majored in history (with a focus on the Holocaust), taught History at the community college level for one year and got booted because THE THESIS wasn't completed. Now done, she believes if she can write that, she can write anything. She DEEPLY appreciates your interest in her writing.

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