In this French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood category, you will read two storylines. The first is the less important. Since this is a memoir, of course, it is a record of my life, but I always considered my lifestory to be only an arbor—or perhaps only a trellis— that was used to create the real story of this book. I wanted to preserve the memory of my community—the Francophone Canadian-American community of New England.

French Boy / A 1950s Franco-American Childhood is a book about life in Franco-America in the 1950s, and it uses my life as an organizing principle.

A good memoir is not only about the individual who is its presenting subject but it is about something bigger, about some whole that the memoir subject is part of. This is what my French Boy memoir reached for. You will have to tell me whether I succeeded or not!

I want to celebrate our Franco experience. I do not want the world to forget we were here. This French Boy memoir is my attempt to do just that.

Let me know what you think of it and please leave a review where you found the book.