Publisher's Synopsis
For the love of her Mother her great great grand aunt, the girl in blue, a daughter of free slaves, planted Jonquils by the New RIver in Virginia in 1857. For the love of her mother, in 1940 Sharon and her aunt replant them in Pennsyvania, a love story.
Love is the bloom in a flower, the caress in a touch, the correction in a spanking, the healing surge in an enema. God is Love, Live is about Love, the love of men and women, mothers and daughters, an aunt and niece, an older and younger sister, a boy and a girl.
Love is universal, part of God, part of childhood, part of innocuous sexual fantasies, the fundamental of any faith worth living. Whatever life brings, whatever pain, sorrow, joy or bliss, love comes back as Jonquils come back every Spring and waves yellow flowers in icy breezes.
A portrait of the 1930s and 40s, WWII, nickel movies, cheerleading, malt shops, Daddy working in the mill, Momma teaching Sunday school, broccoli or Brussel's sprouts in the garden, a time past, closer to the earth, filled with family, friends---boys?---a boy?---any boy?---someone to take me to a movie, then the malt shop, maybe even kiss me good night---marry me? Grandma was married and had two babies when she was my age, before she would have been a senior in high school!
Feel the love read When the Jonquils Bloom Again 5th Edition
