<p>Daniel Lusk&#39;s memoir<em> Girls I Never Married</em> begins in Iowa at the end of the Great Depression. He was born to devoutly religious parents who &quot;were renters and debtors the working poor.&quot; Like many writers of his generation his life and his writing developed against the backdrop of unrest and amid the struggle for cultural change in America - Civil Rights and Vietnam the women&#39;s movement communes sex drugs and rock-and-roll - during the latter half of the 20th century. In <em>Girls I Never Married</em> Lusk shares his narrative dowry from mid-western preacher rancher and jazz singer to New England professor poet and minister of words.</p>