Who Needs June Cleaver?

This collection of short essays comprises an insightful and multi-layered memoir based on the writer's New Jersey childhood. The pieces reflect on family relationships, events, life-lessons, colorful characters, and observations that lodge in a child's memory and stay through a lifetime. With rich wisdom and perspective earned through time and distance, the author explores images going back to mid-century, a time in which children growing up in small town "main street" America developed a world view quite different than that of most American children today. The engaging writing in WHO NEEDS JUNE CLEAVER? does not flinch from difficult recollections, either, offering a beautifully balanced view of an era that shaped a culture while rendering itself obsolete. The author, now living in the South, is newspaper columnist, poet and playwright Constance Alexander. These pieces were originally published over several years in the author's weekly column, "Main Street," written for a small town daily newspaper in Kentucky; a number of the essays also aired on public radio stations. (More info: www.MotesBooks.com)