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I really enjoyed this book about a mom raising 10 children in the contest era which I knew absolutely nothing about.
It's an interesting memoir as the mom is confined to her role as 50s housewife with a shotgun wedding to hide a pregnancy and an alcoholic father who basically contributes nothing, oh and takes out a second mortgage and drinks it away without telling anyone. What the hell? Anyways, I thought it brought up a lot of interesting questions about feminism and subversion of gender roles. It also will read as a culture shock to even the most midwestern Ohio people today. These contests are so ridiculous. The poems are shockingly terrible.
So overall, I would have liked to know more about the mom's true motivations and thoughts but it seems that her character was to be elusive about her own worries and thoughts.
It's an interesting memoir as the mom is confined to her role as 50s housewife with a shotgun wedding to hide a pregnancy and an alcoholic father who basically contributes nothing, oh and takes out a second mortgage and drinks it away without telling anyone. What the hell? Anyways, I thought it brought up a lot of interesting questions about feminism and subversion of gender roles. It also will read as a culture shock to even the most midwestern Ohio people today. These contests are so ridiculous. The poems are shockingly terrible.
So overall, I would have liked to know more about the mom's true motivations and thoughts but it seems that her character was to be elusive about her own worries and thoughts.