We Were Not Spoiled: A Franco-American Memoir

"My education was less important to my parents than my little pay. They wanted me to work and turn my wages over to them." We Were Not Spoiled chronicles the early life of a Franco-Mainer born in 1921 in Lewiston and raised there. Lucille Verreault Ledoux's life is typical of many Franco-Americans of her generation, children of immigrants, and, as such, is an important addition to our understanding of Maine's ethnically diverse communities in the last century. In this story of the effects of immigration to the US from French Canada, we glimpse into the lives of women and girls in the 1920s and 1930s. French Canadian history continued to be alive in the New England girls that people this eminently readable memoir. YOU WILL FIND OVERLOOKED LIVES We Were Not Spoiled reveals an eye for often neglected details, of information thought to be marginal and so too frequently lost to students of history. A basic function of memoir is to give witness to a time and a way of life gone by and this book succeeds well at this function. In its pages, we find ourselves going with Lucille into textile mills, living religious orthodoxy, and creating an identity for herself as a woman, wife and mother. WHAT AMAZON REVIEWERS HAVE SAID OF We Were Not Spoiled. "The narrative is crisp and descriptive, and the story flowed at a good pace to keep me turning the pages. I thoroughly enjoyed reading We Were Not Spoiled and highly recommend it as an enjoyable, enlightening read." -Kathy Pooler
"This book was so interesting that I did not put it down until I had finished reading it... Denis has done an excellent job in portraying his mother's family life." -Tigerman55
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"We Were Not Spoiled is presented like a story told at the kitchen table of Lucille's experience growing up French in Maine." -Roland Vallerand More to Enjoy We Were Not Spoiled is full of period photos drawn from family collections and is generously endowed with end notes to enhance the significance of the text for historical reference. This is a Franco-American tale, a New England memoir, but even more an American story. Scroll to the top of this page and select the "buy" button. The financial investment is small, and the reading pleasure is great. THE MEMOIR NETWORK WRITING SERIES Whether you are writing a memoir, cre