This is an entrancing memoir of days now long gone, but vivid in the minds of those who lived them.While I lived on an Iowa farm in western Iowa rather than eastern Iowa, and was a boy, and was about six years younger than the author, this book recalled so much of what it was like that reading it was sn unmitigated delight.The author recognizes "the all-too-human tendency to gloss over the bad and glorify, or at least magnify, the good" when recalling one's childhood, but it sure makes greater reading to read of one's appreciated childhood than it does to read of one who looks back thereon in bitterness.Thus this book beats, e.g., Angela's Ashes by a mile in enjoyable reading.Click Here to see more reviews about: Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Paperback)
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