Duck and Cover A Nuclear Family 1st Edition by Kathie Farnell ISBN 978-1611177602 161117760X
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ISBN 10: 161117760X
ISBN 13: 978-1611177602
Author: Kathie Farnell
A short story memoir of life in the segregated South as seen through the innocent eyes of a young white girl
Duck and Cover is a wry, laconic memoir penned by Kathie Farnell, based on her perspective as a smart-mouthed, unreasonably optimistic white girl growing up in Cloverdale, a genteel and neatly landscaped neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During those decades Montgomery’s social order was slowly―very slowly―changing. The bus boycott was over if not forgotten, Normandale Shopping Center had a display of the latest fallout shelters, and integration was on the horizon, though many still thought the water in the white and colored drinking fountains came from separate tanks.
Farnell’s household, more like the Addams family than the Cleavers of Leave it to Beaver, included socially ambitious parents who were lawyers, two younger brothers, a live-in grandmother, and Libby, the family maid. Her father was a one-armed rageaholic given to strange business deals such as the one resulting in the family unintentionally owning a bakery. Mama, the quintessential attorney, could strike a jury but was hopeless at making Jello. Granny, a curmudgeon who kept a chamber pot under her bed, was always at odds with Libby, who had been in a bad mood since the bus boycott began.
Farnell deftly recounts tales of aluminum Christmas trees, the Hula-Hoop craze, road trips in the family’s un-air-conditioned black Bel Air, show-and-tell involving a human skeleton, belatedly learning to swear, and even the pet chicken she didn’t know she had. Her well-crafted prose reveals quirky and compelling characters in stories that don’t ignore the dark side of the segregated South, as told from the wide-eyed perspective of a girl who is sometimes oblivious to and often mystified by its byzantine rules. Little did she know that the Age of Aquarius was just around the corner.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Fallout
Chapter 2. Libby
Chapter 3. Christmas
Chapter 4. Easter Egg
Chapter 5. Hula Hoop Nation
Chapter 6. Granny
Chapter 7. Vacation
Chapter 8. Business
Chapter 9. Winter
Chapter 10. Spend the Night
Chapter 11. Barbecue
Chapter 12. Vacation Bible School
Chapter 13. Mobile
Chapter 14. Flash Card
Chapter 15. Scouts
Chapter 16. Saint Augustine
Chapter 17. Adventure
Chapter 18. Punch Bowl
Chapter 19. Role Model
Chapter 20. Mississippi
Chapter 21. Moss Point
Chapter 22. Audubon Club
Chapter 23. Piano
Chapter 24. 1963
Chapter 25. Worse Than
Chapter 26. Contented
Chapter 27. Country Club
Chapter 28. Outdoors
Chapter 29. Clay Runs Away
Chapter 30. Cuckoo Clock
Chapter 31. Camp
Chapter 32. Lights
Chapter 33. Choir
Chapter 34. Panama City
Chapter 35. Sick Room
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