Durations: A Memoir And Personal Essays

Early during World War II Carolyn Osborn began to learn the the meaning of “the duration,” an often used phrase for “nobody knows how long.” Her father, a Lt. Colonel in the Army's field artillery stationed in California, said it before sending her mother, eight-year-old Carolyn, and her brother Billy, six, home to Tennessee. No one could have known this period would include her mother's mental illness, a family secret, one hidden from her children. Fear of stigma silenced everyone. Before breaking through that silence, Carolyn was an adult with children of her own. This memoir is a record of that particular duration, of almost four years living with aunts, of attempts to keep the children together in Nashville, of her father's divorce and remarriage, which brought her a beloved stepmother, and a new home in Texas.

• | Author: Carolyn Osborn
• | Publisher: Wings Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1609405447
• | ISBN-13: 9781609405441