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Opening a New Window: A Kentucky Memoir
Opening a New Window: A Kentucky Memoir
Opening a New Window: A Kentucky Memoir
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Opening a New Window: A Kentucky Memoir

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This book is the third in the series, and it follows both Kiss Your Elbow – A Kentucky Memoir, about growing up during the 1940s and 50s,’and its sequel, Changing the Sheets – A Kentucky Memoir, is my story as a representative of the Silent Generation, and how we found our voice. This book is a “Companion Book” to my second book, Changing the Sheets – A Kentucky Memoir. This book begins with my hard-won freedom, as a divorced woman, by starting my new life in the Highlands area of Louisville – the neighborhood of my dreams. Many women were striking out on their own, at this time. I was eager to join them.
As the generation that took women out of the home and into the workplace, our Silent Generation needed more skills in setting boundaries, and taking up for ourselves. We were used to being told, “It’s not ‘Lady-like,’ to speak ‘out of turn.” Many challenges were part of my journey, but there was a lot of fun and adventure, too.

The time period shown in this book follows the caustic, 1960s, and moves beyond. As you read, you will hopefully recall some good memories of your own. Nostalgia is powerful!
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateApr 17, 2020
ISBN9781728358703
Opening a New Window: A Kentucky Memoir
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Deanna O'Daniel

Deanna O’Daniel’s Changing the Sheets speaks for women in the turbulent times of our country as they advocated for racial equality, the end of the Vietnam War, and began a tsunami wave of feminism. The author speaks to these issues as she lived through them: raising children, teaching, and attempting to be a model wife. Her story resonates with readers who see her move into self-sufficiency. This book is a welcome testament of a difficult struggle. ­— Mary Popham, Back Home in Landing Run Deanna O’Daniel’s writing instantly draws in the reader. I loved Kiss Your Elbow- A Kentucky Memoir, Deanna’s memoir about growing up in a family of 13. I’m delighted that she has continued sharing stories of her life as a member of the Silent Generation. Like her first book, Deanna’s two new books contain humor and descriptions that bring the reader right into each scene and adventure. Life as a 1960s/70s housewife is the focus of Changing the Sheets - A Kentucky Memoir. The next book, Opening a New Window - A Kentucky Memoir is about her life as a naïve divorcee. — Nancy Gall-Clayton, Playwright Deanna O’Daniel’s new book is the embodiment of Americana. She has an amazing ability to capture the time, place and feel of life in 1960’s, 70’s Louisville Kentucky. Her wit and humor abound as she relates her life experience as a free-willed, strong minded woman in an era when those qualities often went unappreciated. Her stories flow with ease as she allows us to share the journeys of a life well lived. — Jerry Deaton, Author, filmmaker, playwright “Deanna captures those moments of self-realization, and nostalgic and not-so-nostalgic place, with a knowing literary net. Again, she pulls away time’s curtain for those of us who inhabited that era. For her younger readers, she reflects with wonderful scenes that reveal what life was like for women. This was in a not-so-distant era—a time when many a woman was reminded as to where her ‘place’ was to be; whether in the world or in the bedroom.” — Don Ray Smith, Feel My Humerus

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