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Ms. Stover (Carol June Gibbs) grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and graduated from Cornell University with highest honors from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. She launched her marketing career in Boston, Massachusetts where she held executive positions with well-known Boston hotel groups, including Sonesta, Hotels of Distinction, Saunders Hotel Group and Inn America Corporation. In 1998 she ventured into writing, co-authoring with Judith Izen, The Collector's Encyclopedia of Vogue Dolls. Following this successful publication, she began writing freelance full time for newspapers and magazines. In 2002 she authored, Small Dolls of the ‘40's and ‘50s’; In 2004 co-authored with Barbara DeFeo, Doll Values, eighth edition. Ms. Stover has also authored over 100 magazine articles published to date in national publications. Her first novel, Current River Redemption won a IPPY Award for Regional Southern Fiction. Surviving 26th Street is her second novel. Ms. Stover is a member of the Off Campus Writers’ Workshop (OCCW) and Independent Writers of Chicago (IWOC), and she now resides in Chicago with her husband Frank Stover.
Reviewed by Trudi LoPreto for Readers' Favorite
Surviving 26th Street by Carol June Stover is a story that will transport you to life in the 1950s. Winton Justice moves his family from Memphis, Tennessee, looking for the American Dream. He opens his own advertising agency in New York City, leaving his wife, Laura, and their two young children, Jane and Denton, home in their newly purchased Mayfair, New Jersey home. Winton has big ideas but his business soon fails and he next sets up a business in his basement selling wire recorders. Life on 26th street is happy for Jane and Denton; they spend the warm summer days playing and visiting with the senior citizens living on their block. Laura, knowing that the bank account is dwindling, gets a job against Winton’s wishes. 26th Street has its share of adventure for the Justice family, including Grandma and Grandpa Justice coming to help out, a sexy neighbor, a thief working with Winton in the basement, Mr. Olson the old man across the street, and lots of other neighbors.
Carol June Stover has written a book that will take you on a journey to 1950 and I loved the trip. Surviving 26th Street is about a small town and the everyday life of one family who has good days, bad days, and real-life situations to deal with. I liked this book from the first sentence and found myself neglecting my chores to read just a little more about what was happening on 26th Street. If you lived in the 1950s Ms. Stover will bring back fond memories; if you didn’t, it will paint a picture of how life used to be. I highly recommend this book to women of all ages.
