Popcorn Poppin on the Apricot Tree

by Faith Paulus

It's 1965 and Annie Peters is just eight years old when her mother is committed full time to a mental health organization. Uprooted by their mother's illness, Annie and her 4 siblings find themselves torn between a Catholic-run orphanage and the final remnants of their shattered home. As tumultuous church and state changes begin to collide with the lure of an escalating pop culture movement, the orphans of St. Vincents are determined to maintain the fierce independence that would forever mark America's early Babyboomer generation.

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

I totally enjoyed this short but just very enjoyable story read by the author (and so she told it as she lived it). Just about her growing up in a catholic environment- catholic school, nuns, parents, siblings, fellow students & friends, etc, from age 6 in 1963 to about 1972 then cut away to 911 to summarize and bring current. I highly recommend this well told, well written breath of fresh air..