Library of Congress Control Number:
2020950319
BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAM000000 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
/ General
SEL031000
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth /
General
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What Readers Are Saying
I rarely read books as quickly as I read So Much for
the White Picket Fence. This memoir is a real page-turner,
not merely because the author has led quite a colorful life but
because the writing is clear, honest, literate, and creates pictures
in my mind. The story is a powerful testament to faith in family,
in humanity, in the universal puzzle known as God, and mostly
to the author herself.
Joe Ryan-PhD Clinical
Psychology, English Professor, Los Angeles City College
How do you keep moving
forward with resilience, holding fast to love, faith, and forgiveness
in the face of great loss and suffering? This is the story Karen
LaGraff bravely shares in her inspiring memoir. She shares searingly
honest details of her journey learning to accept her past, and
also to live and learn from the traumas she experiences in her
own family. The book will leave you with hope that If Karen
can make her way through, so can I, which is exactly the
sense of hope many need, especially now.
Cali Yost, Author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen
Every Day
Karen LaGraff has put
into words both the pain and the joy of living in her emotional
memoir that reminds us that life itself goes on through both
the dark and light times. Her words are beautiful and haunting,
and I found myself drawn into her journey, as if I lived it with
her.
Greg Wilkey, Principal
East Side Elementary School and best-selling author of YA fiction
Youll find parts
of yourself in Karen LaGraffs captivating story of love,
loss, and life. In an era when intense grief and anxiety had
no outlet in the counseling office, we read her words and echo,
me too. Readers will be able to feel, experience,
and resurrect their own stories. And that makes this memoir worth
reading, along with great therapy.
Judy Herman, LPC-MHSP
Counselor, Speaker, and Author of Beyond Messy Relationships |
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About the Author
Karen LaGraff has a B.S. in Education from the University of
Tennessee
in Knoxville and a M.ED. from the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga. She has worked for UTC as a student teacher supervisor
and for the state of Tennessee under the Early Intervention program
evaluating pre-school children. She taught elementary school
for eighteen years before retiring.
She now does volunteer work for
the Ronald McDonald House, the Hart Gallery, and Bridge Refugee
Services. She enjoys reading, writing, traveling, exercising,
gardening and spending time with family and friends. She has
three grown sons, two grandsons, and lives in Chattanooga with
her husband. She can be reached at somuchforthewhitepicketfence@gmail.com |