Mammie's Journal of My Childhood

A mother's journal streaked with tears and bolstered by the laughter of her daughter's unfading memories results in <I>Mammie's Journal of My Childhood</I>-a biographical history set in Indonesia in World War II.</P><P>From the comforts of colonial Dutch East Indies Jolly her mother and brother are thrust into a Japanese internment camp where they spend the next four and a half years separated from Jolly's father a prisoner of war working on the Burma Railroad. Whether shivering in cool breezes on Brastagi's mountainside or sweating in the moist heat of monsoon-soaked Sumatran jungles Nettie puts her children first in a valiant race with death. Jolly's childhood is a journey in faith through the worst of times relieved by episodes of humor and nurtured by heartfelt compassion.</P><P><I>Mammie's Journal of My Childhood</I> gives readers a peek through bamboo fences into the lives of devoted mothers seeking to raise their children with dignity faith and love.</P>