Early Sunday Morning

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Imagine leaving your home in Washington, D.C., and moving to Hawaii mere weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Barry Denenberg takes on this thought experiment and a world of family conflict in one of his offerings to the Dear America series. In this episode, we cover the absolute whirlwind that is Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941. Released on October 1, 2001, Denenberg’s novel provides a brutal portrait of a young girl making sense of the attack on the USS Arizona. We talk about how this compares to the Nanea books and Denenberg’s unflinching approach to children’s literature.

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Original air date: March 18, 2023

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to dolls of our lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American
0:15.2	Girl series book by book except here on Patreon where we're doing whatever you tell us or we want to do.
0:21.6	I'm Mary. I'm still Allison. Allison we gather today to talk
0:26.7	about one of the great works of the American canon perhaps. This book is called
0:32.4	dear America book and it's a dear America book and it's called early Sunday morning the Pearl
0:36.6	Harbor diary of Amber Billows Hawaii 1941. I mean it could, could any Sunday morning be more chaotic than no doubts
0:46.4	song Sunday morning? The answer is yes. The answer may shock you. We have not, we have been
0:52.4	changed. We don't even we're to begin with the
0:54.6	book like Allison like what can we even begin to say about this book I know
0:59.3	exactly what I'm going to say about this book so this what book came out in 2001. It was written by Barry
1:05.2	Denenburg. We will talk more about his theory in a moment. I want to talk first
1:10.5	about the year 2000.
1:12.6	Okay.
1:13.6	I want to talk about a girl named Brittany Jean Spears.
1:17.6	All I could think of every time I looked at or thought about this book which was a lot and recall this book is 2001
1:26.2	it's called early Sunday morning lucky the year 2000 of Brittany Spears single, she says,
1:33.0	this is a story about a girl named Lucky.
1:36.0	Early morning, she wakes up.
1:38.0	Knock, knock, knock on the door.
1:40.0	It's time for makeup, perfect smile.
1:42.0	It's you they're all waiting for.
1:44.2	Isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?
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