Interesting look at rural life in Iowa during the depression..probably a lot like other rural parts of the country at that time.
Beginning caused a lot of questions...why no mention of how her Mom and Dad (who was sent away by her father early in her life) met? Other confusing aspects would have been helped by a family diagram which I have seen in other "historical" or family novels/memoirs.
Wonderful writing that engaged me initially, but got VERY repetitive as the book went on.
Inclusion of family recipes was also interesting at the start, then easy to skip over...maybe because I am not the cook in our house.
Overall a fun, not heavy, read which I needed at the start of the year.
Kathy H.
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