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We Were Not Spoiled: A Franco-American Memoir

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"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
"...a good book that I would recommend to anyone...I'm in the process of writing a memoir or thinking of writing a memoir. There are lots of good information and ideas here..." -a Kindle Customer
"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drawn from family collections and is generously endowed with end notes to enhance the significance of the text for historical reference.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, creative non-fiction, or fiction, the suggestions in this book-as those in the other books in The Memoir Network Writing Series-are applicable.

Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You shows you how writer's block CAN teach you to push beyond stuck.
How to Go Beyond Writing Prompts gets you rooted in the meaning of your stories. Gone the isolated or irrelevant stories produced by prompts.
Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writer offers a number of techniques and best writing practices to keep you writing.
Memory List Question Book: 100s of Not-a-Prompt Questions. Meaningful questions / topics / ideas that help you to reflect more deeply on your story.
Start Your Memoir Right is full of practical steps: stop asking yourself if you should write your memoir, find inspiration to begin, and learn techniques of the art of memoir writing ... you to success.
Writing Great Memory Lists. Memory Lists are the magic bullet of memoir writing. Recall more details and dates than you had ever thought possible.
Write to the End / Eight Strategies to Thrive as a Writer will help you to complete your writing projects and reach the audiences you deserve.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781493772469
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Franco-American Memoir
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1493772465
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 313 gr


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