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Eleventh Summer
In 1967, as the continuing battle over civil rights reverberates around the nation, a young girl is locked in her own battle with her depressed alcoholic mother, who is fast losing the will to live. During the sweltering days of that long ago summer, her mother’s condition escalates and Sally turns to God and the comforting arms of her elderly Negro nanny to cope. This a poignant, heartwarming, sometimes heart wrenching tale of an adolescent coming to terms and having the courage to face a dire situation that will leave her with a stronger faith and an inter peace she never would have thought possible.
132 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 7, 2006
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Sarah Norkus
7 books54 followersSarah Hackett was born October 11th 1955 in Columbus Ohio. Two weeks later, her parents moved to Lexington Kentucky where she spent her formative years growing up around horses in the Bluegrass state. In 1973, at the age of eighteen, she married her high school sweetheart, Michael Norkus. They have been married for forty one years and raised two daughters. Sarah is a grandmother six times over.
Sarah says that writing is in her blood. Her father was the editor of the harness racing magazine, The Horseman and Fair World, for twenty-five years. Her cousin, Stephen Ambrose, wrote Historical Military books, such as Crazy Horse and Custer and Band of Brothers.
Although she didn’t start writing until she was 48, Sarah is quickly making up for lost time. She has written a creative nonfiction, a literary novel and most recently a historical fiction trilogy set in 17th, 18th and 19th century America.
Sarah is treasurer and past regent of the Colonel John Banister Chapter, National Society Daughters of The American Revolution and vice-president of education for Tricity Toastmasters. She is a member of the Battersea Foundation and American Christian Fiction writers.
Sarah Norkus resides in Virginia with her husband Michael.
Sarah says that writing is in her blood. Her father was the editor of the harness racing magazine, The Horseman and Fair World, for twenty-five years. Her cousin, Stephen Ambrose, wrote Historical Military books, such as Crazy Horse and Custer and Band of Brothers.
Although she didn’t start writing until she was 48, Sarah is quickly making up for lost time. She has written a creative nonfiction, a literary novel and most recently a historical fiction trilogy set in 17th, 18th and 19th century America.
Sarah is treasurer and past regent of the Colonel John Banister Chapter, National Society Daughters of The American Revolution and vice-president of education for Tricity Toastmasters. She is a member of the Battersea Foundation and American Christian Fiction writers.
Sarah Norkus resides in Virginia with her husband Michael.
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April 4, 2016
cried throughout; sad life this young girl went through and so greatful for my own dysfunctional family
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