Confessions of Joan the Tall

by Joan Cusack Handler

Overview

Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933880334
Publisher:	CavanKerry Press
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Series:	Notable Voices
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JOAN CUSACK HANDLER, poet, editor and practicing psychologist, has two published poetry collections, five Pushcart nominations, and a Sampler Award from Boston Review.

What People are Saying About This

Baron Wormser

“An unflinching evocation of a Catholic girlhood. In short chapters that touch on nodes of great feeling, she summons up both torment and tenderness. The reader is ushered into a world which reaches from the rooms of her Irish immigrant house in the Bronx to the mysteries of religious feeling. The narrator is beautifully alive to the endless hazards, complications and indignities of growing up. So much of the wisdom of childhood lies in the strange blend of endurance and enchantment. Joan Handler has a sure feeling for both.”

Mickey Pearlman

“We are engrossed by the often painful story of a child trapped in an obedience-based working class Catholic family, a demanding and usually unforgiving Church, and an environment seeming devoid of gentleness and pleasure. Unforgettable.”