How I Became Cyrano de Bergerac
Writing in my mother's voice came in handy when she decided to seek my father’s input on her journal. They’d been divorced for thirty years, but she still valued his [...]
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Dec. 2014
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Dec. 2014
My Grandfather was in the Jewish Mafia
From Forever Autumn: One day during my last year of grammar school, we discovered something about my father that cast a shadow over everything. It happened during the winter when [...]
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Dec. 2014
The Story Behind the Book
The following article is being featured on my publisher's webpage this week: My name is Jo Ivester. I’m 57 years old and live in downtown Austin. I never thought I’d [...]
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Dec. 2014
I’m no expert on the civil rights movement.
When people ask me what my book is about, my standard response is to say that when I was ten years old in 1967, my father transplanted our family from [...]
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Dec. 2014
Starting with a Single Anecdote
My mother was lost for days, believing that she had completed something worthwhile and convinced that there was nothing more she could do. Then we had a breakthrough. “Start with [...]
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Dec. 2014
My Mother’s Journals
All her life, my mother loved being a storyteller. She had a phenomenal memory and spoke of her children and grandchildren, her nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles, parents and [...]