The song lyrics hide as many secrets as Jackie does. Sandcastle forever, until Willa vanished mysteriously that August…and we learn that That Jackie used to be a bold, fiery teen, that she wanted to stay at The Realize that Jackie was once much closer to her cousin Willa than she lets on, Happened two decades ago and why the one summer she spent at the legendary Story pivots between Jackie in 1979 and her life in 1999, as we learn what

To record a tribute album to her uncle on site.

But she reluctantly extends her stay when a music producer asks Sprawling California property that was once her singer uncle’s wild summerįlies to California to prepare the run-down place for sale, thinking she’ll get It’s all a little too safe andĬomes home from work one day and learns that she’s inherited “The Sandcastle,” a Quiet life as a music teacher in Boston, she has a tidy basement apartment, oneĬat, a boyfriend she keeps at arm’s length. My story, Jackie is 37 and seemingly staid and uncomplicated. It wouldn’t be lost sounded at once so daunting and so beautiful. Taking a dead person’s art and melding it with your own so Them to, framing the lines with their own music on the ‘90s album MermaidĪlbum fascinated me. But Wilco,īilly Bragg, and Natalie Merchant got together after Guthrie’s daughter asked That got me through a rough time when I was in my 20s and living alone in Sanĭidn’t write the words-they’re old Woody Guthrie folk lyrics that were

I got the idea from something that really happened. What inspired you to write Lady Sunshine, and how did you create your Her other books include the novel Summer Hours, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Oregonian and the San Francisco Chronicle. Amy Mason Doan is the author of the new novel Lady Sunshine.

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