Yet it's their chores, recipes, old sayings, pranks and virtues that dominate the book. She briefly describes her family - an absent father, strict grandparents, spirited aunts, mischievous siblings and a complicated mother. In her evocative but not overly sentimental book, she describes her role in the collective rural life of her childhood. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression chronicles Kalish's family's life during the 1930s in tiny Garrison, Iowa. "If you'll look at this book, you'll notice that I very deliberately kept myself as much out of it as possible," the 85-year-old said about her first book. It's about a way of life that is long gone. Des Moines, Iowa | Mildred Armstrong Kalish's memoir is not about the author.
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