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Flyover Lives: A Memoir

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Flyover Lives: A Memoir

â€œ[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.â€
â€”The New York Times Book Review
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Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the worldâ€”and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americansâ€™ indifference to history. Â Could it be true? The jâ€™accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her familyâ€™s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestorsâ€”beginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711.
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As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the â€œwispy but materialâ€ family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.
Country USA
Manufacturer Plume
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-11-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780142181249

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