Growing Up in the Great Depression
Paperback, 220 pages
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Peggy Harris was eight years old when the stock market crashed in 1929. The three Iowa banks owned by her family went into bankruptcy, taking her family from affluence to poverty overnight. This is the story of that change in her words 80 years later. It tells of the compassion she learned from suffering, and of the hope which ultimately prevailed.
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Review by Holly Carver, Director, University of Iowa Press: "Under its deceptively straightforward narrative, Growing Up in the Great Depression explores themes of difference and social isolation, as well as the struggle to understand religion and harshness. Recovery is another recurring theme - recovery based on hope and optimism, but also on sheer persistence. Many people can describe people and places well, but falter when it comes to dialogue; Peggy Harris' dialogue is quite believable. She has done a superb job of capturing a time and a place as well as an atmosphere that, in many important ways, echoes that of today's economic turmoil."
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