My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines - Softcover

Maynard, Mary McKay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585747238 ISBN 13: 9781585747238

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2002

Synopsis

A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.)

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Review:

"Charming, transporting... skillfully captured in a voice at once dazzled with innocence and composed in its maturity, Maynard's memoir is an elegant little time-traveler."--"Kirkus Reviews"

From the Back Cover:

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and simultaneously attacked the Philippines, eight-year-old Mary McKay, her parents, and several other American families working on Mindanao fled into the jungle for what they thought would be a short evacuation until they could be rescued by the Navy. Their wait lasted two years.My Faraway Home is the fascinating story of how they survived. The refugees encountered typhoons, fires, and cobras; they lived on dwindling stores of canned food, traded with Filipino villagers who wouldn't betray their hideout, and learned to improvise their own shoes (from rubber tires), soap (from pig fat), and other necessities. Into this upside-down world of anxious waiting and frayed tempers came occasional simple joys-a Fourth of July feast, nighttime card games, a pet goldfish in a glass jar - as the refugees tried to create "normal" life in the jungle.Like The Diary of Anne Frank or Empire of the Sun, My Faraway Home gives a fresh perspective on war through a child's eyes. (6 x 9, 288 pages, b&w photos)Mary McKay Maynard is a painter and freelance writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1585747238
• ISBN 13: 9781585747238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304