Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BNI6H6
Publish date: May 29th 2007
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Biography Memoir
This is a happy memoir. It’s sort of a latter day “Little House on the Prairie,” but intended for adults. There are no sour grapes (or grapes of wrath) dredged up here. And contrary to the subtitle, the childhood remembered here was well insulated from the hard times of the depression. The rural...
This book is just like sitting down in the living room to listen to your grandparents talk about their lives. It took me awhile to read just because of the sheer amount of information and detail the author shares with the reader. She takes us back to 1930s Iowa and her childhood on a farm – from the...
Charming memoir of a hardscrabble girlhood in Iowa during the Great Depression. Pure, clear and delightful. Recommended.
17 years ago
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