"Jack Clark's wondrous celebration of his working-class mother and
her natural gifts as a storyteller has touched me deeply. Hooray
for Mary Jo Ryan Clark and her boy Jack." --Studs Terkel "The book
itself is a marvel of writerly restraint... Some are private
moments--being 4 years old, getting shiny new shoes and remembering
looking down at them as she toed circles in the sawdust on a
butcher shop floor. "Other brush against history--news of Pearl
Harbor, or the Dorchester, a World War II troop ship sunk off the
coast of Greenland. It was famous for the four chaplains who gave
up their life vests to other sailors, but Bill, who was dating Mary
Jo's younger sister, wasn't one of the lucky survivors... "The
books strength is that it doesn't stoop to Greatest Generation
mythologizing. The Clarks are real people, and Mary Jo doesn't try
to make them heroes." --Chicago Sun-Times Mary Jo and Jack Clark
are also authors of "Private Path -- The Desk Calendars of Mary Jo
Ryan, 1937 -- 1943."
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