In this personal memoir, the author shares engaging stories about being a latch-key kid growing up in the American
Midwest during the 1930s and 40s. Her father, shellshocked' in World War I, had a dramatic impact on the family. Her mother, as a single parent, raised her through the hardships of the Great Depression. Janet grows from a lonely child to a twenty-year old mother, and blossoms into a complex woman who has uncommon experiences...