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caitmarie24's review against another edition
5.0
This book is lovely. I picked it for my 2015 Reading Challenge for the "book you chose for the cover" entry. And I did. It's a small, squarish book, with a cover from the 1960s re-issue. Just green and gold. It was written in 1935, though, and I loved reading about Ada Fincastle McBride and the "vein of iron" that runs through the women in her family as they deal with the Civil War, and then the Great War and the Great Depression. Her family never has much but they make do with what they can and they find happiness in just being together. It's quite rebellious a story, though, with several plot threads that buck the traditions of that age. Well worth reading.
mangrove_'s review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
jensteerswell's review against another edition
4.0
Oh, man, this gets pretty depressing as you watch the Fincastle clan go from rural poverty before WWI to possibly lower middle class in the 1920s boom years to ever more desperate urban poverty, until the very last page, when hope arrives. And yet, this is how the depression was: banks closing with all of your money inside and no depositors' insurance, businesses cutting your hours and your pay until they finally had to close their doors, people riding trains around the country looking for work. Those who want to destroy the welfare state that arose in response to those circumstances are well-advised to read this book before casting their ballots.
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