"When we are young, what happens is not nearly as important as what we think happens. Perhaps that is true even when we are not so young." - from Robert Ebert's 1995 review of the film "Hope and Glory"
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Linda Rae Johnson
Linda Rae and her sisters, June, 1960
FAMILY PHOTO
"Ouachita Girl"
LINDA RAE’S BOOK "OUACHITA GIRL"
Available at 1st Books, any online local bookseller or available directly from the author at the email address below.
Linda Rae Johnson has taken sixteen of her childhood memories, southern fried them and serves them up in her first book, “Ouachita Girl”. In this walk down the paths of her childhood, she evokes the bittersweet humor of a small Louisiana town in the late 50's and early 60's as seen through a child's eyes.
Linda Rae after her Artspace 2000 performance
The vignettes are embellished where names and events have faded from her memory and to protect the innocent and not shame the guilty. The stories are voiced by "Linda Rae" from age nine to thirteen, the sassy know-it-all personification of Ms. Johnson's reflections. They are depicted in tones of innocence tainted by darkness, but kept alive by her offbeat humor.
E-mail Linda Rae at: rae_writer@msn.com
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