rollicking tale of high times during hard days

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	• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Mildred Armstrong Kalish Bantam, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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rollicking tale of high times during hard days

Mildred Armstrong Kalish has provided readers with a rare treat in this rollicking memoir of growing up in rural Iowa during the Depression years.

Meticulously written, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of a vanished way of life, this book will hold you captive from the first page to the last. Armstrong's book is filled with hardy characters, skillful and canny, equal to the sometimes harrowing situations they faced.

I wouldn't describe this as a "feel-good" memoir, as Kalish writes as honestly and precisely about the difficulties and the heartbreaks, as she does about the many delights. This is a window into the heartland of many decades past, as well as a window into human hearts of any age. It deserves the highest rating.

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Very sweet

I guess I was expecting more "High Spirits" as promised on the book's cover than there were. All that being said, it is a very sweet book, full of love and a nostalgia for days that have passed, but then that is the way with memoirs. The way of life may have passed, but that is not always a bad thing. This was the Depression, after all. But as far as reminding us of how far family values have deteriorated, this is a first rate account. For that we can all feel nostalgia.

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Sweet Read!

I just saw this Author at our local library. She was a doll and I wish I could sit down with her and chat all afternoon! The book was from the heart genuine and easy to read. I wish I could click my heals and travel back to life when it was simple and honest and people were REAL... What a neat time to grow up in...READ IT and dream!

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A Wonderful Memoir

Little Heathens is a wonderful memoir, heartwarming, but without a hint of treacle. Mildred Kalish grew up during tough times on an Iowa farm and lived a life many would complain about, but there is no bitterness in her story, simply an appreciation of her life and a love of her family. I read a lot of books and I have to say this one is like no other--an inspiring, yet wholly enjoyable story. I recommended this one to two people during the space of half an hour, one is 75, the other is 11, and both simply loved it. I would recommend it to all in between as well. Little Heathens is an engaging, fascinating story. Enjoy.

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One of the 10 Best of 2007

Just voted one of the 10 Best Books of 2007 by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor...

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