Overview

IT'S 1965 and Annie Peters is just eight-years-old when her mother is committed full-time to a mental health institution. Uprooted by their mother's illness, Annie and her siblings find themselves themselves torn between a Catholic-run orphanage and the final remnants of their shattered home. As tumultuous church and state changes begin to collide with the lure of an escalating pop culture movement, the orphans of St. Vincents are determined to maintain the fierce that independence would forever mark America's early Babyboomer generation.

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""I enjoyed this memoir very much! Faith Paulus has a great sense of humor-and a great eye-I thank you so much for sharing this fascinating story with me."" Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind ""Popcorn is engaging and is reminiscent of Mary Karr's The Liars Club for its ingenuity and flow."" Mark Sullivan of Mark Sullivan Associates, New York

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Faith Ann Paulus is an advocate for women, the environment, and sustainable interior design. She founded Interiors by Faith in San Diego and went on to specialize in the restoration and preservation of historical bungalows throughout the Southeast. Faith Ann and her partner are currently stewarding their latest project; the 1927 Nine Mile Fork Schoolhouse in Charleston South Carolina; one of only 200 of the original 5300 Rosenwald Schoolhouses still standing. With two Golden retrievers, a ragdoll cat named Benjamin Clouseau, and a second home in Costa Rica's blue zones, this couple keeps busy on various travel adventures.You can keep up with Faith Anns next chapter as she prepares to write about her travel experiences behind the Facebook page; Destinations by Faith.

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