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Title: Done Growed Up

Subtitle: Apron Strings Trilogy, Book 2

Author: Mary Morony

Narrator: Wendy Hilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-16

Publisher: Sherry Taylor

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When we last left the Mackey Family in the late 1950s, their lives were in turmoil. Divorce, alcoholism, racism, death, puberty - what weren't they dealing with?

Ethel, a black maid in a racist world - the true heart and soul of the Mackey Family - is the children's only constant as she fights her own numerous demons. Twelve-year-old Sallee struggles to understand the world with little enlightenment from the adults around her. Her older sister Stuart, a college student in New York City, finally escaped the South and drama of her family only to succumb to the terrible temptations of urban life. Gordon, a 14-year-old boy feeling anger and hatred as he begins to slowly realize the harsh reality of the people and world around him, while Ginny, newly divorced mother of four, finds that she's not the spoiled princess she once was. She is overwhelmed with responsibility, feelings of abandonment, and alcoholism. Joe, Ginny's ex, and the children's father, revels in newfound wealth and popularity with women, yet yearns for family and simpler times.

Author Mary Morony was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, mainly by her family's beloved black maid. Her childhood was a time of segregated schools and many places that prohibited black people. Morony's inspiration for the Apron Strings Trilogy was her strong relationship with her maid and caretaker, who taught her more about life and love than anyone has since. Morony also uses personal life tragedies and triumphs to produce novels with real experiences and true emotion.

Members Reviews:

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Done Growed Up (Apron Strings Trilogy Book 2)Done Growed Up by Mary Morony merges two kinds of Southern fiction. It is driven by many richly drawn charactersâa nearly Dickensian number and concatenationâalmost any one of whom you could imagine being the protagonist of his or her own short story. Her characters are not some stereotypical set, but a rich array of ordinary humanity with layered personalities living in layered communities at a time when the past is battling the future. Among the most central of these personalities, including the POV character, Sallee, are the Mackey children. Yet, this is not a childrenâs book, but a book for those who once were children. A rare kind of irony is realized as Morony leads us to contrast how we understood the world around us when we were young and how we now know it really was. She portrays her revelations about the South in the early 1960s by seamlessly fusing character-based fiction with theme-based.

Perhaps the most pervasive theme in Done Growed Up is hope when there is much to fear: hope from truth, from empathy, from courage, from the love of true friends, from the love of family, and most of all from that rarest of richesâwisdom. Later in the novel, Stuart Mackey passes to her mother an insight she has learned from her wonderful psychiatrist, âsecrets are harmful. They keep things in the darkâ. [K]eeping secrets continues the trauma from one generation to the next.â My own experience as a lifelong southerner who grew up having a large extended family certainly bears out that wisdom.

A dominant theme in the development of Moronyâs characters is growing self-awareness. For the adults, especially Joe and Ginny Mackey as well as C. L. Dabney, this theme operates as self-realization.