Lori's review
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
Lori's review
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
Lori's review
rating:
Dysfuntional family memoir for the faint of heart. Or for the Reader's Digest group. I should have known what to expect when I saw the forward by Suze Orman - I'm actually surprised I read it after that. Mother raises 10 kids in poverty and with an alcoholic husband, saving the family from bankruptcy and homlessness on more than one occasion by writing (really bad) jingles and slogans during the 50s. I would have liked to have read the real story - life couldn't have been as cheery and aw shucks as the writer describes. On the other hand, her mother managed to raise 10 children who, for the most part, grew up to be well educated, responsible adults despite childhoods that could have been breeding grounds so I guess life wasn't all bad.
