A review by kittykornerlibrarian
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

4.0

I enjoyed Cleary's memoir very much... especially having read Emily's Runaway Imagination so many times, I could definitely recognize some of the places, people, and events that she fictionalized in that particular book! This really brought home to me what Cleary's childhood during the Depression in Oregon was like. Her family really struggled and she's honest about what they go through. They also moved a LOT when she was a child, from the farm to the city and then into different neighborhoods. Cleary's relationships with her parents appear to be cold and not very affectionate, and her mother, oh, my goodness, what a problematic relationship that was. I would read this again.