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This true-to-life rags to riches tale set during WWII could have actually happened if not for one thing: Mattie Featherstone never existed, other than between the covers of this 381-page book. But the lifestyles, the culture of the time, and some of the places ring so true, you'll wonder. It's classic 1940's, Dallas, Texas, in and around Oak Cliff.
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Too young to be widowed and too pretty to be alone, Mattie
Featherstone is both. Suddenly impoverished, this confused, tormented
woman abandons her children and seeks refuge in an encampment for vagrants
situated near the Trinity River on the west side of Dallas during World
War II.
When a twist-of-fate encounter eases Mattie out of destitution into the
genteel world of her paper doll dreams, she manages to conceal the truth
about her past from her benefactors. She even justifies - in her own mind
- the abandonment of her daughters.
However, everything changes when yet another unforeseen event turns her
life into sensational headline news, revealing more than even she could
imagine.
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My Awards
EAST TEXAS WRITERS GUILD
EAST TEXAS WRITERS GUILD
2008 NON-FICTION ARTICLE AWARD
First Place Winner
Mother-in-Law: For Better or
Worse
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2007 FICTION AWARD
First Place Winner
Sara's Secret
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WILLIAM OWENS AWARD FOR FICTION
1993
First Place Winner
Paper Dolls
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