U.S. and Them
The Re-Enchantment of a Cold War Childhood
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In this memoir of growing up in the 1960s Cold War, Patricia Bjorklund narrates a girlhood filled with John Birch Society activism, racial tensions, concepts of sin and hell, and the ominous and omnipresent fears of nuclear apocalypse—and, conversely, the glowing redemptive powers of hope and happiness. "The naïveté and paranoia of the Cold War years are perfectly rendered in Patricia Bjorklund’s irresistible memoir of a working-class Connecticut childhood. Khrushchev is plotting, Communism is menacing, the traditional Catholic mass is changing and her pretty, patriotic, white mom is wea...
In this memoir of growing up in the 1960s Cold War, Patricia Bjorklund narrates a girlhood filled with John Birch Society activism, racial tensions, concepts of sin and hell, and the ominous and omnipresent fears of nuclear apocalypse—and, conversely, the glowing redemptive powers of hope and happiness. "The naïveté and paranoia of the Cold War years are perfectly rendered in Patricia Bjorklund’s irresistible memoir of a working-class Connecticut childhood. Khrushchev is plotting, Communism is menacing, the traditional Catholic mass is changing and her pretty, patriotic, white mom is wearing a wire and infiltrating the Black Panthers in a flip and a miniskirt. Amid all this turmoil, Patricia navigates girlhood and adolescence with a loyal heart, an observant eye, and a sarcastic wit. If you grew up in the Cold War era, you’ll love this book for the memories it rekindles—and if you didn’t, it will make you wish you’d been there." —Evelyn Somers. Associate Editor, The Missouri Review
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