Jennifer Lauck Books

Lauck continues her mesmerizing life story in this eagerly anticipated and roundly acclaimed sequel to the "New York Times" bestselling "Blackbird."

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Lauck's memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s, and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost.

The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there are almost never any clouds up there. It's where Jennifer lives with her older brother B.J., her father and mother, and their two cats Moshe and Diane. It should be a perfect, peaceful childhood - but Jennifer's mother is ill, very ill, and a childhood is the last thing Jennifer is going to be allowed ... With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up in the late 1970s - and the extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. As Jennifer moves from Nevada to Hermosa Beach, California, from Palo Alto to Los Angeles we witness a child coping with things she shouldn't have to cope with. But what shines through BLACKBIRD is an unbreakable spirit and a sense of survival that is both profoundly moving and deeply inspiring.

Le récit véridique et bouleversant d’une enfance cauchemardesque. Lorsque la petite Jennifer a cinq ans, sa mère tombe gravement malade mais continue d’entourer sa petite fille de tendresse. À sa mort, tout change. Détestée par la nouvelle compagne de son père, enrôlée de force dans la secte dont fait partie cette dernière, finalement complètement livrée à elle-même, Jennifer connaîtra beaucoup trop tôt le monde cruel des adultes... “ Le regard courageux que pose un enfant sur un monde sans pitié. Superbement écrit et très touchant ”, tel est le jugement porté sur ce témoignage impressionnant par Franck McCourt, l’auteur des Cendres d’Angela.