Don't Tell Your Mother

From a World War II plane crash to chasing an axe murderer Don´t Tell Your Mother is an episodic novel told from the point of view of a young girl as she negotiates life in Arizona with her angry bitter mother and her charming polo-player father all against the backdrop of World War II. Her accounts are humorous dry and have a detachment found only in an innocent but resilient child. . On her journey from childhood to adolescence she tries to comprehend adult behavior. Along the way she is exposed to molestation a friend´s incest a stranger´s suicide a hacksaw murderer adultery mental illness a gangster and an escaped German prisoner. She also experiences great love and tenderness from ordinary people: housekeepers gardeners teacher neighbors and relatives.. Several of the chapters in this book have been previously published: Winnie Ruth Judd in Phantasmagoria ; Mrs. King in RE:AL A Literary Journal and Cousin Chickie in Oregon East.