We Smoked Our Sister and Other Stories from a Childhood

A Time to Remember

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book We Smoked Our Sister and Other Stories from a Childhood by Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell, AuthorHouse
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Author: Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell ISBN: 9781463422301
Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication: August 29, 2011
Imprint: AuthorHouse Language: English
Author: Carlotta Maria Shinn-Russell
ISBN: 9781463422301
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication: August 29, 2011
Imprint: AuthorHouse
Language: English

We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art.

Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history.

The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families.

This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.

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We Smoked Our Sister: Stories from a childhood carries the reader back to the wonderful days of the 1960s; a time of excitement in the growth of America. The life of a rural family in Chunchula, Alabama, a suburb of Mobile County is portrayed between these pages. Though it was a time of financial hardships, the family was held together by a loving mother and father, who worked hard and raised their children to be disciplined/focused, productive, motivated, and successful as werll as creating a love for learning and the importance of family and heritage taught through stories passed down from family ancestry, as well as stories created by the Seymour children who lived these stories. Family life was like a work of art.

Also, this book looks at a part of family life and the methods used to discipline children in the south. A picture of a rich life comes through to the reader, which could describe the simple everyday lives of any family in the south. The south has such rich undiscovered family history.

The reader will not be able to put it down; it totally involves you in the life of the Seymour family and the siblings with their wonderfully hilarious antics. The reader will be able to picture a time in America when life was totally different. We long for those days again, where there was peace, harmony and caring among the citizens. So take a journey though the sixties and relive the days that are so precious to many southern families.

This book contains stories that are timeless in beauty and wonderfully intriguing.

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