Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years

Not Quite on Grand Avenue: Poems of the Early Years is a collection of deeply personal poems that take us to a small town in the 1940s and early 1950s in Nebraska as seen by a young girl negotiating her way through the cords of family, friends, and freedoms. From the raw end of innocence as a family falls apart to forging independence through exploring the countryside on a horse to rediscovering comfort in family, these poems show the joys and challenges of growing up in a home with a front yard in town and a backyard in the country.

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