MY 18TH bIRTHDAY
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Life in the small tri-states town of Clover, AR-LA-TX, was wonderful until the year 1960; then heartaches of the worse kind --loss of he lover and death of a friend--led the young guitarist, Annie Jo, to catch a Greyhound bus headed to the city lights of Memphis, TN—there she might be discovered by a talent scout. While riding through Arkansas, she tries to ignore the handsome man giving her more attention han he should. And soon action starts to pop. Annie Jo' the daughter of an Irish fathr and a Cherokee mother joins with members of the Civil Rights movement, gets stalked by a drunk, jailed, and kidnapped—all on her 18th birthday.
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MY 18TH BIRTHDAY:
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eBook Description: Life in the small tri-states town of Clover, AR-LA-TX, was bittersweet. On her 18th birthday in 1960; after heartaches of the worse kind, the young guitarist, Annie Jo, caught a Greyhound bus headed to the city lights of Memphis, TN--there she might be discovered by a talent scout. While riding through Arkansas, she tries to ignore the handsome man giving her more attention than he should. And soon action starts to pop. Annie Jo joins with members of the Civil Rights movement, gets stalked by a drunk, jailed, and kidnapped--all on her 18th birthday.
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2011
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Words: 41726
Reading time: 119-166 min.
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ONE
My birth hour is at six o'clock this afternoon--according to the clock on the wall, I'll be eighteen-years-old ten hours from now.
Since spring, I have counted the hours for this day to come--the day I could finally leave home and live my life on my own. I can honestly say that I've had good times and lots of love growing up in the fifties. But since the arrival of nineteen-sixty, my life has fallen apart. That's why I'm leaving my daddy's farm in Clover, Arkansas, and heading to the city lights of Memphis, Tennessee. There I'll get a job as a waitress or a store clerk until I can pursue my dream, to become a songwriter and singer, like Johnny Cash.
I adjust the strap holding my guitar over my shoulder and grin; I am both excited and anxious as I hand ten dollars and forty cents to Jake Brown, the ticket clerk.
He smiles and says to me, "So, Annie Jo, yer going to Memphis, huh?"
Yes, he knows my name. Most of the folks working here at the Greyhound terminal know my name. That's because I've traveled lots, going here-and-there, to whichever little town--from Hope, Arkansas to Atlanta, Texas--that my grandparents happened to live in at the time. My grandma would give me traveling money for these short ventures so that I could come visit her. Then she'd talk folks into letting me play my guitar at various parties and barbeques and other social happenings--from churches to honky-tonks--wherever she had an influence. Actually, grandma is my biggest fan.
"Yer grandma move to Memphis?"
"No. She moved back to daddy's farm, I think for good now. Unless she decides to follow me to the city."
"I figured Katie would stop moving around once George died."
I think Jake Brown is a little taken-in by my grandma, even though I don't know of the two ever being flirtatious. There is just an admiring twinkle in his eyes when he speaks of her.
"Annie Jo, yer looking more like Katie everyday," Jake says, and I wonder how that can be. I do have grandma's blue Irish eyes but my skin is brown like my Cherokee mother's.
"Tell Katie I asked about her."
"Jake, why don't you give her a call? She's at the farm most of the time--except when she catches a ride with somebody coming to town."
"Yeah, she comes in here. Sometime I see her Sometime I see her eating at the food counter or heading to the restroom."
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Annie Jo is only 18-years-old, but this certainly is not a YA book.
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