A review by jenna0010
Yonnondio: From the Thirties by Tillie Olsen

4.0

A world whose earth is splitting beneath its workers' feet, a sun blistering backs, the of industrialism ceaselessly in motion. And amidst the depressive, yet achingly beautiful, landscape of 1930s American Midwest, a mother and her family persisting, toiling, hungering. Olsen describes both the domestic and industrial with such sharpness; the home and the kill floor of the local meatpacking plant are both sites of struggle, ruin and resistance. And the cover of this reprint, gosh. How is it that my favourite Dorothea Lange photograph heads this book of my dreams?!