penny k. johnson

Memories of a Female Trucker is written from the cab of an eighteen-wheeler where Johnson lived for five years. The gist of the book takes place within the schism of the lush life of the 1950s and the rebellion of the 1960s. It uses the grid of interstate driving to deftly weave a collage of time and place. It is nightmare, visitation and new meanings where the past is squarely placed in the rearview mirror while the highway is always moving forward. This is a story of a woman and a man as well as of a mother and daughter in which the intellectual brutality is always offset with the juxtaposition of nature. It is a journey of healing and success.