This story gives a detailed description of Shirley's struggles of having lived through decades of unsolicited abuses as a child while living in Eastern, Kentucky. After marrying to get away from home, she lived in Texas thinking that she could escape her past injustices. After being divorced in her late thirties and having two teenage children to look after, Shirley found it hard to be on her own and eventually ended up homeless and without her children. Despite her living situations, Shirley took back her life and emerged happy, healthy and whole. Within the pages of her story you will see clearly how she kept her faith in the God she had been raised to believed to be a crude and unloving being, but pressed on to learn that He is indeed a friend that sticks closer than a brother. She was able to receive the love of her Father in heaven and have restoration with her earthly father as well.
This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery.
This story gives a detailed description of Shirley's struggles of having lived through decades of unsolicited abuses as a child while living in Eastern, Kentucky. After marrying to get away from home, she lived in Texas thinking that she could escape her past injustices. After being divorced in her late thirties and having two teenage children to look after, Shirley found it hard to be on her own and eventually ended up homeless and without her children. Despite her living situations, Shirley took back her life and emerged happy, healthy and whole. Within the pages of her story you will see clearly how she kept her faith in the God she had been raised to believed to be a crude and unloving being, but pressed on to learn that He is indeed a friend that sticks closer than a brother. She was able to receive the love of her Father in heaven and have restoration with her earthly father as well.
The short stories captured on these pages are snippets of a well-lived life. I gathered information like a thief through the years and then one lovely and sunny day, I put pen to paper, filled my mouth with ink and spat it all on paper. What fun I had with these, my precious little stories. I have a Blue Million more to write.
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