Boomer Tales - by Larue Agresti (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This wild read of a book has great professional reviews including Kirkus and Readers Favorites. It received an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival. Infused with bizarre characters and events, this engaging, vivacious memoir is told with heart, raw honesty, and droll humor. You might laugh and cry but not want to put it down.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>An engaging, vivacious memoir told with heart, raw honesty, and droll humor. LaRue takes you on a wild read of growing up in Chicago in an eccentric Italian family, living with a mentally ill mother, sisterly bonds, the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of hippie life, an illegal abortion, a bad marriage, single parenting and caring for parents with Alzheimers and cancer. Chapter 14 is a jewel in itself. Reading it is akin to opening an early 1970's time capsule. Told through original letters to her sister from a bizarre communal living arrangement in the hippie haven of the Florida Keys, it is loaded with wild tales and fantastic hippie vernacular. All chapters of the book are infused with unique characters and events that make it a page-turner. Her journeys and struggles are always met with a positive and humorous attitude, making this book very germane and inspiring to all ages of readers. The Boomers especially will relate to this story as much of it encapsulates their experience as a generation. the GenXer's and Millenials can live vicariously through the pre-aids and smartphone era. You might laugh and cry but you will not want to put it down.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>She is a fine narrator who will hold the reader's attention .Kirkus Review I really loved reading this book. You know why? LaRue Agresti told her story with all her heart, and you can feel that in her words. She tells her story so eloquently, and that makes it an extra special book to read. I was laughing, crying and smiling throughout. Miss Agresti has a gift and I am so glad she decided to share it with us., Reviewed by Readers Favorites This is a fabulous book that takes you on a wonderful adventure! Great read and awesome present! There are lots of smiles in this book. Highly recommend! D. Doyle amazon Reviewer. LaRue has a freestyling writing ability that grabs you right from the beginning and takes you swirling from one chapter to the next. It doesn't matter whether you are Italian or not, different culture, different ethnicity, it was the crazy 60's that was the common denominator that bonded us all.R Hurc Amazon Reviewer I started and ended this book today and what a page turner. You are a great narrator of your own story and you tell it with such humor and grace. As a storyteller, you have managed to describe your cast of characters in your life with such color and describe the events in such detail that I felt i could picture and feel that time again. DLR Amazon Review The author writes easily and well. It felt like I was listening to a friend. She has lots of hard times but doesn't particularly dwell on them.She just kept a-going. What era she lived through. F.N. Amazon Reviewer An unforgettable trip through the 60's and beyond.Through her breezy style, she tells a series of brief stories, which like an impressionistic painter eventually combine to create a pointillistic picture of her early life. Often funny and sometimes sad, these vignettes are a series of brief stories many of which are remarkable in their realism and linger with you long after finishing it. Brad S. Amazon Reviewer Captivating! Very well written, a book that helps the reader live through Chicago life in the 60's and 70's in the eyes of a free-spirited woman overcoming adversity in her family life as well as adapting to many moves as a young child transitioning to adulthood with her experience leaving home to follow her heart. We are able to see the internal dynamics of a Chicago Italian family and get to know LaRue's animated father as well as experience life with a mentally challenged mother. LaRue demonstrates her ability to embrace the moment, fleeing where the wind takes her without looking back. This book inspires us all to take a leap of faith, enjoy the moment, and have no regrets. Michele Amazon Reviewer. Must Read for Chicago Boomers! This is a great read! I'm a Boomer who grew up in Chicago so there are a wealth of things in this book to relate to. The author is a lady who has led a full life which she relates with warmth and humor while not sugar coating any of the rough patches she encountered. Highly recommend this book to all Boomers, anyone with connections to Chicago, and anyone who enjoys a good biography. T. Murphy Amazon Reviewer Great book, great read! I highly recommend this book. Vivid characters that "live out loud" kept me reading way later than planned. N.F. Amazon Reviewer Loved this Book! It was entertaining and a quick read! An interesting life! I would highly recommend this book. It was definitely worth reading. I spent a rainy Sunday enjoying it. S.Horn Amazon Reviewer This book truly is a treat ! The authors' life takes many twists and turns from trying to make sense of her psychologically ill mother during her pre-teen years at a time when nobody talked about mental illness to partying with the hippie counterculture and later raising her daughter among a real life colorful cast of characters. Agresti embraces every humorous moment of her interesting life. I finished the book wanting to read more. G.M. Walsh Amazon Reviewer<br>
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