Always Wear Joy
Subtitle: My Mother Bold and Beautiful
Publisher: Amistad
Published: May 4, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780060566722
First sentence: Breathe in!" my mother commanded in her low, smokier-than-Bacall timbre, as she took a puff on her cigarette and cinched my lean, as yet unblooming fourteen-year-old physique into the pearl-gray peau de soie ball gown.