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HERO MAMA Karen Spears Zacharias HARDCOVER BOOK Vietnam

A Daugther Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam

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Ended:Nov 25, 200907:37:23 PST
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Item number:370280635933
Item location:Lindsborg, Kansas, United States
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Author: Karen Spears ZachariasPublisher: Harpercollins
ISBN-10: 0060721480Subject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9780060721480Topic: Women
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2005Condition: Very Good
Special Attributes: 1st Edition  
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Length:361 pages
Height:9.0 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:23.2 oz.

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I don't remember Mama crying when Granny Ruth died, but the day after she was buried, Mama gathered together all the pillows in the house and went into the room where her mother's foot-pedaled sewing machine stood silent. Taking a pair of black-handled scissors, she cut open the tops of Granny's pillows. Aunt Blanche asked Mama what in Jehoshaphat's name did she think she was doing, cutting up all the pillows like that. Mama answered something about finding a crown inside one of those pillows Granny Ruth had fashioned from chicken feathers.

"Sometimes," she explained, "when a person sleeps on a pillow for a long time the feathers will mold together to make a crown ..."

It's the 1960s and nine-year-old Karen Spears is living in a trailer in middle Georgia. Her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam, and left behind three young children and a wife with a ninth-grade education. Hero Mama is the gritty, searing, and beautifully written story of what happened to this Southern family in the aftermath of a soldier's death.

At first the widow Spears appeared to fall apart -- turning herself into a beer-guzzling, good-time girl, while her children responded in kind. Eventually she recognized how much her children needed her and, with mule-headed tenacity, she earned her nursing degree and bought the family a real home fashioned from bricks, rising above her own flaws to forge a better life for her kids. Now Karen Spears Zacharias pays tribute to this woman of guts and determination -- her Hero Mama -- who battled overwhelming adversity to pull her family up and make them proud of her, and of themselves.

Hero Mama is also the story of the South, where a young girl grew up against an emotionally charged landscape of racism and bigotry, where the daughter of a fallen soldier had to face the stigma of a war nobody wanted, and where a family in crisis pulled together to achieve its own version of the American dream. It is a triumphant tale of reconciliation between a daughter and her father, a daughter and her nation, and a daughter and the people of Vietnam. It is a story for any daughter who has loved her father -- and for any daughter who has had to discover how deeply her mother really loves her.




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Up for auction is a hardcover book entitled Hero Mama authored by Karen Spears Zacharias.  Page behind title page reads "Copyright 2005, HarperCollins, New York, First Edition".  367 pages.  Very good condition.  No folds, tears, writing or damage.  Paper cover shows a retail price of $24.95 on it.

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