Brunais, Andrea

Jacqueline Brunais, nee Breniser, was born in Gregory, Michigan, in 1927. Growing up, the shy and observant Jackie listened, rapt, to the louder storytellers in her family, gaining an ear for dialogue and an eye for detail, along with an appreciation of human foibles and an immaculate sense of pacing and drama. She kept her eyes and ears open as the Great Depression played out during her early childhood, and she recorded her impressions of World War II in a teen-age diary. She earned a bachelor's degree and, later, after she was widowed and mother of a young son, a master's from the University...