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Bobby: A Memoir

Bobby: A Memoir

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Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1968761616
ISBN13: 9781968761615
Publisher: Mission Point Press
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A boy's story of growing up as a member of an extended immigrant family from Cornwall, England, in the bustling, multi-ethnic town of Ironwood, Michigan-the commercial center of the far-western Upper Peninsula-during the Great Depression and World War II.

Bobby is a richly detailed memoir that captures the rhythms of small-town life in Ironwood, Michigan, through the eyes of a reflective narrator growing up in the mid-twentieth century. Told with warmth, humor, and a touch of melancholy, the book traces a family's intertwining stories-of love and hardship, pride and loss-set against the rugged backdrop of the Upper Peninsula. Through vivid vignettes of home life, community rituals, and colorful relatives, the narrator reconstructs a vanished world shaped by iron ore mines, church bells, and family expectations. At its heart, Bobby is an affectionate and deeply human portrait of a bygone America-one where memory and place converge to illuminate the endurance of family and the passage from innocence to understanding.

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