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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Momma Sang: Finding my Mother in her own words

Momma Sang: Finding my Mother in her own words

Booker, Marti
Carter, Theresa Melody

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ISBN10: 1974559890
ISBN13: 9781974559893
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 16 2017
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Theresa Melody Carter was born in 1953 in central Arizona. She died in 1990 from complications of leukemia, the same disease that claimed her mother's life in 1960. In between, she lived a life unlike many others, life as a wild child in the Arizona desert then a tamed life as a 1970's and 80's housewife and mother. When she died, she left a few stories behind, just a few of the thousands she must have held in her head. By gathering these, I have tried to understand better the mother that I lost too soon. Filled with her sharp humor and clear-eyed observations, they bring back a time long past, a time most people have never even known existed, when Waylon Jennings was an unknown disc jockey in a remote desert town and a red-headed Okie gal tended bar and sang songs to her children . . ..

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