Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl’s Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

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On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to provide an explanation for her side of the messes she created: “I’m in serious trouble through no fault of my own,” her entries continuously started. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a time when music, art, and women’s social status were all in a state of flux and the economy was once still flying high.

Coco’s diary carefully records her adventures, problems, and romances, written with a full of life wit and a droll humorousness. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother’s clothes or getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will captivate and delight preteen readers in addition to their mothers and grandmothers.

Peg Meier’s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, at the same time as an afterword tells what happens to Coco as an adult—and reveals surprises about one of the crucial other characters in the diary.

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