The Boy with Four Eyes: A Memoir of Life in the Ozarks in the 1930S and 1940S (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781663247049)

Time is the Great Depression.1930's.Unmarried teen-ager chooses life for her unborn son despite many difficulties. .Cross-eyed and pudgy, he is teased a lot (hence book's title) .Mother must give him up, elderly grandparents are only choice. They proceed to raise him through trials and errors, some serious, some humorous. Conservative farm folks from the Ozarks, they apply old fashioned rules of character which shape his life, while others in the little Ozark town keep him on the proper path. At the end of the story he is on his way to college, first person in his family to do so and is reunited with his mother in the night of her death.

Author: Gene Allen
ISBN-10: 1663247048
ISBN-13: 9781663247049
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023