A review by quietjenn
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

4.0

I very much enjoyed this. And as someone who grew up on Cleary, it was lovely to note little instances from her childhood which popped up in her fiction. But beyond that, it's such a vivid but clear eyed portrait of growing up in a particular time and during a particular place. Very struck by how Greatest Generation her attitude is towards things she experienced and I marvel at how unsentimental and straightforward her writing is. It very much makes me want to revisit her children's fiction which was such formative reading for me.