Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
A Biography, War, History book. And when Iceberg heard about my measles, he laughedlaughed! Incidentally,...
This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and ruminates about the impending war, daily headlines, and major touchstones of the era—FDR’s radio addresses, the Lindbergh kidnapping, Goodbye Mr. Chips and Citizen Kane, Churchill and Hitler, war work and Red Cross meetings. Joan’s original handrawn doodles of her latest dress or haircut infuse the pages with whimsy and period flavor.Home Front Girl is not only an entertaining and delightful read but an important primary source on the late 1930s and early 1940s—a vivid account of a real American girl’s lived experiences.
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This was mildly interesting, but failed to live up to it's full potential. I think it would have been better served as a fictionalized account with a real foundation (such as the Little House books).In it's current state, it is much too disjointed, and ended really abruptly (Gee, an afterword or epilogue would have been nice).I guess... I really liked that Joan was a down-to-earth kind of girl. She is a normal teenage girl who has crushes, likes movies, can't decide what to with her life, and then WWII happens. This book reminded me of how much language and customs have changed since the 40's.Read if you like biography, WWII, and patriotism. 3.5 stars. The title of this book may seem slightly misleading, since America didn't become an actual "home front" until entering the war, and that point doesn't come until pretty far into the book. The war didn't really affect Joan Wehlen's life in a personal sense during the time she kept these journals, though she was always aware...
