Its All About Julie

It's All About Julie is a family memoir in which the author relates her life story, from the 1920's rural New York to her elderly years in Virginia Beach. She chronicles her early youth on the family diary farm in much detail. She writes in a frank and straightforward manner of her own youthful indiscreations, Her dissatisfactions with the limits of farm life is clearly coupled with a love for the rhythum and routeen of the farm. She continues to describ her loving marriage and her husbands ambition: their adventures to include job changes, building houses, and travel - both by RV through the United States, and across the ocean to Morocco and throughout Europe. Her family bonds, at times fraught, are depicted with humor. Her relationships to her parents (especially to her "Jekyll and Hyde" father), to her mild-manner and friendly husband, and to her boisterous children are described with candor and personality, making this a valuable chronicle for her family and any large family respectively.

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