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Yearning: A Memoir Kindle Edition

by Sally Cisney Mann (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
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"Sally Cisney Mann tells a powerful, moving, and unforgettable story of tragedy and hope, loss and love, suffering and triumph. Hers is a life shaped by sweeping events - economic and social dislocation from the Great Depression, World War II, and the war in Southeast Asia. All students of war and the family should read this work, as well as those interested in the social history of women in America and in how we construct our individual identities when the world seems unwilling to cooperate. Her truly remarkable account, at once personal and universal, details her quest for stability - and for family. Readers will shed tears at all she endured, and they'll truly be 'in her corner' as she struggles to prevail over heartache."

Donald J. Mrozek
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Kansas State University
Author of Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002LVV0A0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Outskirts Press, Inc. (August 6, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 691 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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E. Wagoner
5.0 out of 5 stars Yearning by Sally Cisney Mann
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009
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This is a sincere and extremely personal story of the circumstances of a life that shaped a daughter/sister/wife/mother - all the roles and many of the challenges of so many women. We meet Sally as the youngest of two siblings born to parents ill-prepared for parenthood and survivor of a difficult marriage. Drawing on the love and sense of family she experienced in her foster family, she found the resilience to give her own children the security and love she was denied the first three decades of her life. She writes with empathy and understanding of the forces that made her life so difficult and we share in the ultimate happiness she finds in the loving family she enjoys today. This memoir is a nostalgic page-turner that makes the reader look back and remember - perhaps more gently.
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Ronald M Ward
5.0 out of 5 stars Look at that Daddy ! A turning point .
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2011
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Yearning A Memoir: Well Sally here goes. My first review just for you! Yearning to me was really a quest for acceptance, love and a family. This book for me was actually a fun read. Yes it had its tragedies but the fact that the authors personality shines through made it fun.
The book was short, only 300 pages, and it was edited well. In my opinion for those writers out there that self publish their book one of the best things they can do to help the book sell is to find a good editor. I think Sally had a good one.
Well people this is my first review so I'm trying not to give too much away, so forgive me if I do.
This is just a few scenes in the book not in any order and only the author will understand: Well Sally if I was a goose I would chase you with a broom and take away your Karo syrup too and there would be no butterfly kisses for you!
You readers will understand what I just wrote, after you read this wonderful book.
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Diana B. Steffen
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a heartwarming book about survival and hope
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2014
I've worked with Sally in a writing group in Albuquerque for over six years, and, when I first met her, I had no idea about all of the trials she had been through in her life. As long as I've known her, Sally has always been an upbeat, positive person who lives life from her heart. As I read her book,"Yearning: A Memoir," I couldn't help be amazed by how many heartbreaking things she has been through and how real she made those experiences in her writing. Read this book and you'll travel along with Sally on her life's journey and find out how, with all that has happened to her, she has remained an outgoing, happy, and helpful person. This is truly a story of survival.
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Betty M. Settle
5.0 out of 5 stars Left, But Not Lost
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2009
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It took courage for Sally to write this memoir. She not only shares the sad realities of her childhood, but she is also candid when doing so. Sally's details have a strong effect on readers, whether describing her difficult relationship with her mother or when explaining her own disappointing marriage to her first husband. How Sally quietly overcame so much unhappiness and a learning disability to exhibit qualities of leadership in her family, school, and community is a fascinating story. Sally's story proves to me that sometimes the hardships in childhood can become a catalyst and, for Sally, a personal challenge to become a big achiever. Hers is truly a story of the triumph of the human spirit. If you like books about stong women, YEARNING:A MEMOIR is one of the best.
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Muriel A
5.0 out of 5 stars This Exceeds Expectations of a Memoir
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2011
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Sally Mann's book "Yearning, A Memoir," offers the reader more than just a memoir as she so accurately describes the times in which she grew up in addition to tracing her life story from her early years to her adult life. The book reflects the world in which a girl was born in the 1930's and 1940's through her clear description of her growing up years, high school activities, college life of the late 1950's, and being a military wife during war times. It was so relatable to me that I have given this book to my daughters-in-law so that they might get a picture of what it was like to be born in that era and feel a part of women's history. While the reader empathesizes with Sally as well as for all children in her growing up circumstances, the book shows that a person can overcome major life problems and "live happily ever after" with a loving family and many dear friends. This is one of the most engaging books I have read and found it hard to put down.
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Nancy F. Lange
5.0 out of 5 stars Triumph of the human spirit
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2014
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Yearning: A Memoir by Sally Cisney Mann is a well told poignant and memorable story that will tug at your heartstrings. This search for love and stability is a theme each of us can identify with as we travel life's road with Sally. We are involved in the adversities she encounters, the choices she must make,the acceptances she finds, and the ultimate joy of finding what she has been seeking. A must read for all who celebrate the victory of the human spirit.
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D. Rhodes
5.0 out of 5 stars A heart-touching story
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2010
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I was an Alpha Phi at Colorado State College in Greeley, Colorado, like Sally even though we were not there at the same time (we missed each other by 3 months). Sally's story really captured my heart. I felt so much compassion for the "little girl" in the story and, like most of my sorority sisters, did not know about her difficult early childhood.

Recently, my book club read Sally's book and Sally accepted the invitation to come to our book club meeting. It was a treat to have the author of the book present for the discussion. Sally was able to present insight about her unusual life story that gave the book club members an even greater appreciation of her book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017
Easy, poignant read
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Donna Giesler
5.0 out of 5 stars I Yearn for the Sequel to "Yearning"!
Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2015
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I lived Sally's life with her, rejoiced with her victories, despaired with her tragedies, marvelled at how she recalled poignant details from her youth in this compelling "Memoir". Did she really "remember" all those facts and feelings? I know she did not keep detailed diaries or they would have been mentioned in the book. Perhaps she has an enhanced Chromosome 16, the gene involved in memory...
Many times I "forgot" that I was reading a memoir and hungered for the "detail" supplied by fiction writers... no, this was the raw truth, so touching, so real. So real, in fact, that I actually got to speak to her recently and tell her how much I enjoyed her book. She assured me that there was no fabrication involved... "Yearning" was truly a MEMOIR, remembered from the heart.
And, (SPOILER ALERT!) I was happy to find that Sally is today, living happily in a rewarding relationship. Perhaps she will consider writing about her life from where she left off in the book...
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