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Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family “faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story.” It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer’s memories of depression-era southern Illinois.
“People started writing me from all over the country,” Hastings notes. “And all said much the same: ‘You were writing about my family, as much as your own. That’s how I remember the 1930s, too.’”
As he proves time and again in this book, Hastings is a natural storyteller who can touch upon the detail that makes the tale both poignant and universal. He brings to life a period that marked every man, woman, and child who lived through it even as that national experience fades into the past.
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LEE LITTLETON
reviewed Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression on June 03, 2018 Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression
I picked this book up at the library, and I must say I was happily surprised with it. Usually when I read about the depression era I end up reading facts and statistics. This was the first time I read something about the depression that pulled me in and made me feel like I was there. It was refreshing to see what the average Joe was like in such a dark time in American history. Everything felt so raw and real while I read. The depression was a time where everyone was barely scraping by and the simplistic writing and bluntness helped capture that.
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