{"id":23685,"date":"2015-04-29T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23685"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:51:11","slug":"flyover-lives-by-diane-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/flyover-lives-by-diane-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyover Lives by Diane Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"flyover<\/a>\u00a0For those of you not familiar with Diane Johnson, she is a writer who grew up right in the Midwest, in Moline, Illinois to be specific. Her Midwest roots can be found throughout her writings, specifically in her memoir, Flyover Lives<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson grew up in Moline and writes that the Midwest was a place she wanted to escape from. She\u00a0 eventually ended up in California and then in France, where the idea for this book sprang forth. At a\u00a0house party\u00a0in France, Johnson’s friend told her that Americans had an “indifference to history,” that that was why\u00a0Americans were na\u00efve and didn’t have as much\u00a0of a grasp and pride in their history as the French did. When\u00a0Johnson eventually made her way back to California, this conversation stayed stuck in her head. What if the people in the Midwest, otherwise known as the flyover states, also flew over their family history with little thought given to where they came from and the struggles of their ancestors? This bothered Johnson and she set out to find out more about her genealogy. This book serves as her rebuttal.<\/p>\n

Accompanied with pictures from her life and her ancestors’ lives, Johnson weaves\u00a0together a story\u00a0about the hold that home has on us all and our twin desire to escape to other places and make a name for ourselves. Johnson and her readers will find similarities between their own lives and the descriptions of her ancestors and their eventual journey to the Midwest. The letters and memoirs Johnson discovered serve as the backdrop to her exploration of a proud family history that ends up in the Midwest with the potential to leak around the world.<\/p>\n

Looking for more books by Johnson? You’re in luck! The library has a number of books by her like Le divorce,<\/em><\/a> Le mariage<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0L’affaire<\/em><\/a>. Some of these books are also available in large print, e-books, and audio books. Le Divorce was also made into a movie. Interested in finding copies of those, either\u00a0click on the\u00a0titles or visit the library catalog<\/a> and search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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