I have read about half of this book, "A Year Down Yonder." There are 130 pages of this book. The background of the story is the depression in 1937. They called it the Roosevelt recession.
The main character is Mary Alice, a fifteen-year-old girl who lived in Chicago. Her father was also one of the ten million men who were out of work, so he couldn't afford the apartment the family used to live. Instead, Mary's parents moved into a "light housekeeping" room which was only big enough for two people. Mary's brother had been taken on by the Civilian Conservation Crops. Therefore, Mary, who was left alone, had to live with Grandma Dowdel.
By many events, we can see that what a person Grandma Dowdel is. Mary's grandmother is really a surprising and impressive person. She used many "tips" and sometimes even "cheat" to get over the hard time. For example, when Old Man Nyquist said they could have any pecan that fell in his yard, Grandma Dowdel drove a wagon, hitting it on the pecan tree and the pecans just fell like rain. That's really impressive, wasn't it?
I just can't imagine what else her grandma would do.
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