Joan Copeland
Joan Copeland
@joancopeland - Author
Joan Copeland
@joancopeland - Author
Joan's books
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Twelve Sweetpotatoes: Escaping from a Carolina Soap Opera
Twelve Sweetpotatoes is an Americana reflection of the author’s life on her mother’s hardscrabble tobacco farm in Eastern North Carolina in the mid-60s. The reader joins the author as she tells her stories along her ultimate path to healing from life-shaping family alcoholism, mental illness...
About me
In her mid-40s, Joan Barnes Copeland began writing stories of her 1960s chaotic family life on a North Carolina hardscrabble tobacco farm. These stories are published in her memoir Twelve Sweetpotatoes: Escaping from a Carolina Soap Opera. She is a member of the North Carolina Writer's Network.