On Seven Mile Road

By Nancy Marchenia Stevens and Nancy Marchenia-Stevens

In August of 1945 the Marchenia family took up residence in a home on Seven Mile Road on the East Side of Detroit. It was a home with a potbellied stove and a generous front porch, lilac bushes and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932205683
• ISBN13: 9781932205688
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Word Association
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Memories

When my sisters and I are together a conversation often starts "remember when...". Reading On Seven Mile is like eaves-dropping on another family as they recall vignettes of their lives in the 40s and 50s. Although I was from another place, memories of growning up at that time is something with which I connect stongly.

GREAT MEMORIES

WHAT A DELIFUL BOOK. BROUGHT BACK A LOTOF MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN THE LATE 40'S EARLY50'S EASY EMJOYABLE READING

A great book club selection

It is a delightful read. I so enjoyed this book, we are going read it for our book club selection this summer. It brought back such memories of my own childhood that I know it will evoke a great discussion for our club. It is a quick read but challenges us to remember our formative years. The author's family and friends come alive for us in the vignette style chapters and charming sketches of the Seven Mile Road neighborhood. Enjoy the smells of your grandma's kitchen, the games you played with your neighborhood friends or just sit at the table until you finish your peas. It will bring a warm heartfelt smile. It is a great read for all ages. I am looking forward to the sequel.

Absolutely Wonderful!

This book brought back the sights, sounds and smells of growing up in the 40's and 50's in the most delicious way. It recalled the long forgotten words and phrases, feelings, thoughts and past times of childhood. You once again feel the frustration of limping home with a broken roller skate, the dreamy pleasure of naming the shapes of clouds on a summer day, the piercing smell of those Toni home permanents, and the cozy sound of the rain on the front porch. The writing is elegantly simple. The author shares her loving extended family with you in such a way that you feel you are having coffee at the kitchen table with them. A must read. You'll love it.

A Journey Back To Childhood

This book took me right back to my childhood. All the memories of growing up in the 40's and 50's came flooding back. It was sweet, simple and fast reading but I kept pausing and thinking of my own memories of those carefree days of childhood.I would recomend it to anyone who grew up in those times and to anyone age nine on up,to give them a look at what life was like back then.