Terri W. (txhockeymom) - , reviewed on 10/29/2008 + 33 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 10

This book is about a family in Alabama during the depression. The story begins with a baby being dropped into the family well. Although that really isn't the main theme of the story, it is interwoven through the narrative. This is a book about a family struggling to survive in hard times. It is about compassion for your fellow man. It is about the doubts of a young girl who wonders whether there is something else in her future besides being a wife and mother. Also, race relations, and labor struggles, hopes, dreams and disappointments. I know that sounds like a lot to cover in one story, but it is very well written and compelling. I am the granddaughter of coalminers, so I found that part of the story especially interesting.

I loved the story of this family, especially the relationship between the parents and their children. The struggles of the family in hard times were long and difficult, and yet the parents taught by example the need to always be compassionate and charitable, even though you have very little of your own.

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