University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-299-30023-4 | Paper: 978-0-299-30024-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3561.E558Z47 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family—father, mother, two little girls—is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France and raised in Florida. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir including the novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie and the writing text Building Fiction. The Sally Mead Hands Professor of English, she teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
REVIEWS
“A sweetly honest memoir of a girl growing up amid the glare of the rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. . . . [A] coming-of-age story, but punctuated by the romance and thunder of rockets entering space.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An incandescent girlhood memoir. . . . So lyrical and poignant are the events it chronicles, it is hard to believe that it wasn't all by design.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A devastatingly honest, relentlessly unsentimental portrait of [the author’s] childhood. . . . A quietly powerful personal history.”—Jacqueline Boone, New York Times Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: Madison, Wisconsin, 1993
Chapter 1. May 1966
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4. June 1966
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7. January 1967
Chapter 8
Chapter 9. April 1967
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12. October 1968
Chapter 13
Chapter 14. July 1969
Chapter 15
Chapter 16. October 1970
Chapter 17. December 1972
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20. January 1974
Chapter 21
Epilogue
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-299-30023-4 Paper: 978-0-299-30024-1
Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family—father, mother, two little girls—is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France and raised in Florida. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir including the novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie and the writing text Building Fiction. The Sally Mead Hands Professor of English, she teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
REVIEWS
“A sweetly honest memoir of a girl growing up amid the glare of the rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. . . . [A] coming-of-age story, but punctuated by the romance and thunder of rockets entering space.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An incandescent girlhood memoir. . . . So lyrical and poignant are the events it chronicles, it is hard to believe that it wasn't all by design.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A devastatingly honest, relentlessly unsentimental portrait of [the author’s] childhood. . . . A quietly powerful personal history.”—Jacqueline Boone, New York Times Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: Madison, Wisconsin, 1993
Chapter 1. May 1966
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4. June 1966
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7. January 1967
Chapter 8
Chapter 9. April 1967
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12. October 1968
Chapter 13
Chapter 14. July 1969
Chapter 15
Chapter 16. October 1970
Chapter 17. December 1972
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20. January 1974
Chapter 21
Epilogue
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