Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
HomeFront Girl A DIARY OF LOVE LITERATURE AND GROWING UP IN WARTIME AMERICA JOAN WEHLEN MORRISON EDITED BY SUSAN SIGNE MORRISON
To my mother Joan whose cheer humor wisdom and loving presence abide I miss you
Saturday December 28 1940 The world’s not going to come back the way it was London is brave somehow burning and huddled in shelters yet walking also in the unlighted streets London is Troy Everyone is wrong nobody is right Berlin is Troy too Paris is fallen Where is Helen Oh world
Contents Preface by Susan Signe Morrison xi 1937 Age 14 1938 Age 15 1939 Age 16 1940 Age 17 1941 Age 18 1942 Age 19 1943 Age 20 Acknowledgments 3 25 91 139 163 225 237 243 Index 245 ix
