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Also by Swoosie Kurtz:

Part Swan, Part Goose, May 2014
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Also by Joni Rodgers:

Part Swan, Part Goose, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Promise Me, September 2010
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The Secret Sisters, February 2006
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PART SWAN, PART GOOSE
By: Swoosie Kurtz, Joni Rodgers

An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family

Perigee
May 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
336 pages
ISBN: 0399168508
EAN: 9780399168505
Kindle: B00FPWHQ14
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir

In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate journey of caring for an aging parent.

Animating this remarkable memoir is Swoosie’s relationship with her equally remarkable parents. Her father, Frank, was an Olympic athlete and highly decorated World War II airman. He flew a record number of missions in a cobbled-together B-17D called the Swoose. Her mother, Margo, was the quintessential military wife but with the spunk and will to match her husband’s. Her 1945 memoir, My Rival, the Sky, chronicled their lives up to the time of the birth of their daughter.

Today, Margo, who is fast approaching her hundredth birthday, lives with Swoosie. And Swoosie’s life has become a precarious and precious balancing act as she struggles to stay ahead of her mother’s increasing needs while navigating a showbiz career that keeps one foot in Hollywood and the other on Broadway.

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