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Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the has called a national treasure, finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. is Hollands account of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and 50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past.

Mixing tales of an autocratic stepfather, a brilliant, reclusive mother, and a houseful of siblings with jump-rope rhymes and dangerous sled runs, teachers both wise and weird, and a childs-eye view of war, Holland gives readers a unique and sharp-eyed look at history and the world of childhood as it used to be.