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Be Home Before Dark

Linda Jean Kohler

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Description:This remarkable collection of related poems delivers a series of artful and poignant character sketches through the narrative voice of Adie, a young girl born into a small New England village in the 1940s. Adie takes us on a tour of the alternately joyful, lonely, sad and sometimes strange lives of her village’s inhabitants and she invites us to witness the struggles each person faces while trying to reconcile an often secret life with an official role the community expects.Adie’s brother Alan can name the capitals of all forty-eight states and can do so backwards in alphabetical order, because he has this high IQ and because he is so lonely.Her mother Jeanette cries in the Fall because the trees become naked for months, blown only by a cold mean wind.Adie’s father says we’ve all got a different drummer. He tells her she will know the right tune when she hears it and soon, because he can already see the starlight in her eyes.Reverend Ellerbee says girls ask for it with their lipstick and see-through blouses. He says they’ll be pregnant by age fourteen.Faye, the Reverend’s wife, has ashy blond hair, wears sweaters two sizes too small, and can make her hips move without any music.Dominick, the Reverend’s brother, has water on the brain and grabs the wallet in his back pocket whenever a car goes by because the Japs are coming.Adie’s elderly friend Jossie says it’s okay to play in the cemetery because the dead need company. They especially need to hear the voices of children.Traudl Plunket has the biggest bosoms in town because she is German.Madelaine Lewis is seventy-nine and dances naked on her roof every Fall. She needs to feel nothing between her and God.With the honesty and clarity of the child Adie pierces the idealistic veil, exposing and illuminating the psychological flaws and strengths of those around her, while trying to decipher the conflicting and often life-altering messages given her by adults...In this time of excessive mobility, these poems serve as a remembrance of what life was like in a small New England village when a successful day hinged upon hearing pieces of gossip, having drop-in tea with neighbors, or just feeling as if it was indeed possible to own a town.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Be Home Before Dark. To get started finding Be Home Before Dark, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This remarkable collection of related poems delivers a series of artful and poignant character sketches through the narrative voice of Adie, a young girl born into a small New England village in the 1940s. Adie takes us on a tour of the alternately joyful, lonely, sad and sometimes strange lives of her village’s inhabitants and she invites us to witness the struggles each person faces while trying to reconcile an often secret life with an official role the community expects.Adie’s brother Alan can name the capitals of all forty-eight states and can do so backwards in alphabetical order, because he has this high IQ and because he is so lonely.Her mother Jeanette cries in the Fall because the trees become naked for months, blown only by a cold mean wind.Adie’s father says we’ve all got a different drummer. He tells her she will know the right tune when she hears it and soon, because he can already see the starlight in her eyes.Reverend Ellerbee says girls ask for it with their lipstick and see-through blouses. He says they’ll be pregnant by age fourteen.Faye, the Reverend’s wife, has ashy blond hair, wears sweaters two sizes too small, and can make her hips move without any music.Dominick, the Reverend’s brother, has water on the brain and grabs the wallet in his back pocket whenever a car goes by because the Japs are coming.Adie’s elderly friend Jossie says it’s okay to play in the cemetery because the dead need company. They especially need to hear the voices of children.Traudl Plunket has the biggest bosoms in town because she is German.Madelaine Lewis is seventy-nine and dances naked on her roof every Fall. She needs to feel nothing between her and God.With the honesty and clarity of the child Adie pierces the idealistic veil, exposing and illuminating the psychological flaws and strengths of those around her, while trying to decipher the conflicting and often life-altering messages given her by adults...In this time of excessive mobility, these poems serve as a remembrance of what life was like in a small New England village when a successful day hinged upon hearing pieces of gossip, having drop-in tea with neighbors, or just feeling as if it was indeed possible to own a town.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Be Home Before Dark. To get started finding Be Home Before Dark, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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