Unbreakable Texas Women By Joanne Kukanza Easley Presented by Lone Star Literary Life
She ran from her mother’s life. Then she had to go home and face it. By six, Janie already knows what most children never have to learn: vodka doesn’t just make Mama mean — it destroys everything it touches. Growing up in the dust and hard living of 1950s Odessa, Texas, she vows she’ll never become her mother. At sixteen, she runs, hitchhiking west just as the Summer of Love begins — chasing freedom, and finding instead the same old patterns of pain in new places.
