Join us for Eola Road Branch's Breakfast B ook Club.
\nWe read a variety of fiction titles\, mainly historical fiction\, and meet once a month for a lively discussion. Stop by the 2nd f loor reference desk to pick up a copy. No registration required.
\nF or questions\, please email yiota@aurorapubliclibrary.org.
\nBook De scription:
\n"I tell of a time\, a place\, and a way of life long go ne. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove\, l est it vanish forever. So\, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences\, and partly for the sheer joy and exci tement of it all\, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.
\nSo begins Mildred Kalish&rsquo\;s story of growing up on her grandparents &rsquo\; Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. With her fat her banished from the household for mysterious transgressions\, five-year- old Mildred and her family could easily have been overwhelmed by the chall enge of simply trying to survive. This\, however\, is not a tale of suffer ing.
\nKalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had ca ring grandparents who possessed&mdash\;and valiantly tried to impose&mdash \;all the pioneer virtues of their forebears\, teachers who inspired and b efriended her\, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved . She and her siblings and their cousins from the farm across the way play ed as hard as they worked\, running barefoot through the fields\, as free and wild as they dared.
\nFilled with recipes and how-tos for everyt hing from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and ha ir beautifiers\, apple cream pie\, and the world&rsquo\;s best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean)\, Lit tle Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted\; the taste of crystal clear marble-s ized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest\; the sweet smell from th e body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass\; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon.
\nLittle Heath ens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a &ldquo\;hearty-handshake M ethodist&rdquo\; family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinsh ip\, kindness\, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrativ e filled with tenderness and humor\, Kalish&rsquo\;s memoir of her childho od shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like &ldquo\;quite a romp: (Amazon)."
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