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“It concerns real life, relatively ordinary activities, drawn with the precision of a Norman Rockwell painting.” ~The Omaha Reader

Set in the Dust Bowl of the American West, this true account of a child coming of age on a 1920's Nebraska farm, recaptures an era. Young Lucille Marker experiences survival during the Depression, one of the worst dust storms in history, and finally the disintegration of the close-knit community in which she grows up. Readers who like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder or Willa Cather will enjoy Farm Girl. It takes place on the Marker farm, located near Red Cloud, the locale of Willa Cather’s Nebraska novels. Farm Girl takes one back to a time and place that no longer exists in American culture. Richly photographed throughout with over sixty authentic photos documenting the people and places of the story, this historical, easy-to-read book is suitable for use in the classroom.

"Farm Girl presents a vision of life on a Nebraska homestead during the 1920s and 1930s, told from a child's perspective, and illustrated with photographs of the time." --Quincy Herald Whig

"Farm Girl will capture the interest of readers in the photos the book contains and witty recollections Lucille has of her grandparents in Catherton Township." --The Red Cloud Chief

"Have you thought about writing your family history, but found yourself stuck from the start? Writing a family narrative can be a daunting task, but Karen Jones Gowen found a way to bring her mother's story to life." --Homespun Magazine

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006IGV3KG
Éditeur ‏ : ‎ WiDo Publishing (5 décembre 2011)
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bristol bookworm

Interesting memoir

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 6 janvier 2015

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Enjoyable insight into a very different life and time from my own

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Joe Boudreault

good descriptions of pioneer life

Commenté au Canada 🇨🇦 le 30 août 2017

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This book reminds me a lot of the things my parents and grandparents lived through and told me about. You have to love the frontier and the homesteaders of yesteryear to like this book. But Karen Gowen has given us a vivid reminder of the hardships of those who opened up the western lands, starting with her ancestors in Nebraska in the late 19th century. My ancestry was in the east, this was the sod-busting pioneers of the West. Both required the same basic stamina and perseverance to make do in primitive conditions.

The narrative is from Karen's mother, and it was probably a good thing that she kept her mother's voice. The chores and routines of pioneer life are universal. These people had struggled continuously to survive, and some of them made a good living out of a place where others simply gave up. The descriptions of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression are vivid and memorable. Grasshoppers blotting out the sun, dust in everything, the boredom for some of prairie farm life. But the human spirit will always prevail for those who persist. This is not for city folk who do not understand the country. This is for those who appreciate the hard work of those who were instrumental in opening up the frontiers.

There are a few repeat scenes in the latter parts. I do not understand the reason for this - appendixes are sometimes not chronological. But a repeat of those harsh scenes probably drives he point home. This was not an easy life to live. Kudos to those (the Markers and the Joneses etc) who lived it regardless.

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C. Bott

enjoyable read

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 24 mai 2013

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I grew up reading the "Little House" series of books, and other fans of that series will enjoy this book. Obviously, it is set at a later time period, although it does discuss the pioneer grandparents who moved out west to homestead and eventually help found a town. The author writes from the POV of her mother quite effectively, and she lived an interesting life. She even moves to the "big city" for high school during the Depression years. I was especially drawn to the narrator's mother (the author's grandmother), who was an artist. Nowadays we might assume that all of the duties of a farmer's wife would be so exhausting she would have no energy for her art, but it was pretty amazing at how creative and productive she was. She even helped to support her family during the Depression by trading artwork for dry goods or by selling them. An appendix includes an essay she wrote about her life.

I kind of wish I had purchased a "real" book instead of the Kindle version because of the many photos of family members and the mother's paintings. My Kindle is B & W and I wondered if the photos of the paintings were in color. Also, if I had the print book I would have loaned it to my parents to read, as I'm sure it would spark their memories, and then added it to my classroom library. While the book is written for adults, I would say that the vocabulary, interest level, and content would be fine for upper elementary and up. In fact, it might be a fun summer reading book for a grandparent and older grandchild to read and discuss, kind of like a book club, and it would be sure to foster some interesting discussions.

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Ray Riddle

An excellent way to learn what life was like in Nebraska in the 1920s and 30s

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 21 septembre 2013

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This is not a novel. There is no plot. The author interviewed her mother about growing up on a farm in Nebraska in the 1920's and 30's during the Great Depression and the dust bowl storms and wrote the memories that came forth in her mother's voice. As such, it is an excellent book.

I couldn't put it down. To hear what it was actually like to live in those times and those circumstances, that is what drew me to the book and kept me reading until I reached the end. I'm sitting here at 1:23 a.m., dead tired, because I kept telling myself "I'll go to bed when I reach the next chapter." Except I couldn't. I found myself reading more and more.

What I really love is the photographs between each chapter. Pictures of the people and the places in the book. That made the book much more personal to me. Also, at the end, there are notes regarding each chapter, and afterwards are things written by the author's grandmother, regarding the things/times talked about earlier in the book. It was really cool to read this in her mother's voice and at the end, read more in her grandmother's voice, someone talked about quite a lot in the book but never actually talked to.

At the very end are more photos. I really liked this book as a piece of history, showing what living then and there was really like. It's not a very long book, but what is there is most definitely worth reading.

If you're reading this on a Kindle, it will consider the end of the book as the part where the author's mother stops talking and will bring up the "Share that you have finished this book" screen and won't let you go past that. You have to go back to the table of contents, then click on Appendix B to get past that screen and page back to the beginning of Appendix A.

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Lucy Ditty

Very Enjoyable

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 4 avril 2012

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I liked this book a lot. It is a charming memoir without self-pity, sentimentality, or a lecturing tone of "we had it so much worse than you did."

From the introduction, it sounds like Karen "primed the pump" to get Lucille's memories going and then just let them flow, and that's how the book reads. It meanders a bit and there's sometimes not a lot of "point" to a particular story. I never got the feeling that there was a specific goal or path in mind, just the journey - which, really, is what life is all about.

Lucille matter-of-factly acknowledges that she was a loved and spoiled child, a fact which I think is borne out by the photographs. It seems unusual to have so many relatively casual photos of a small child from this era (although I could just be completely off-base here) and I was touched by them. I particularly liked the one of her drinking from the "hydrant."

The paintings were lovely, and I thought they were an unusual and interesting addition to the book, although certainly not all that impressive on my Kindle e-ink reader.

The worst thing I can say about it is that the writing is a bit unpolished, but I would balance that by saying that I think to polish this book would be to run the risk of ruining it.

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