Space: A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0299300242
- ISBN-13
- 9780299300241
- Series
- Space
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 325
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-21
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Pres
- Author
- Jesse Lee Kercheval
Description
Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family—father, mother, two little girls—is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
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