Blackbird –
Jennifer Lauck
Reviewed by trucker
Dyan Y. Bartlett
Round Rock, Texas
Title: Blackbird
Author: Jennifer Lauck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Listening Time: 6 hours
Retail: $26
Genre: Jennifer Lauck’s childhood memoirs
Plot: Blackbird is the memoir of Jennifer Lauck’s childhood, during the early 1970s. Through tragic events, Jennifer learns she can depend only on herself.
Main characters: Jennifer Lauck is a small child who deals with caring for her dying mother. She must also face her father’s marriage to the wicked stepmother.
Mrs. Lauck, the mother, is an ailing woman unable to cope with losing her dignity and her husband. Mr. Lauck, the father, is a man who will not deal with his ailing wife and spends more time at work than with his family.
Narrator’s style: It was very hard to get into the story. But if you can get past the semimonotonous voice, the story becomes engrossing.
What’s best (or not): That one so young could endure so much and still come out OK. I look
forward to the sequel.
Would you recommend? Yes, I think we sometimes feel that we have it bad. I couldn’t even imagine being that young and dealing with Jennifer’s life. It made me thankful for my own life.
