Mildred Armstrong Kalish

We are celebrating our eleventh Community Book Group—a monthly Book Group, open to everyone in the community and centered on works by Bay Area authors. Bookshop’s next community selection is the enchanting but thoroughly unsentimental book, Little Heathens by Cupertino author Mildred Armstrong Kalish. ... (more)“This unpretentious yet deeply intelligent memoir of growing up on a central Iowa farm in the throes of the Great Depression radiates the joy of a vanished way of life as Kalish recounts what appear to contemporary eyes as unendurable deprivations,” says Booklist. The meeting will feature a discussion at 6:30pm facilitated by Julie Minnis, followed by a dialogue with 7:00pm. Little Heathens will be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price from May 21st until the June 16th meeting date (for those last minute readers!). We hope you’ll join us. PS—There will be snacks and tea!!

We are celebrating our eleventh Community Book Group—a monthly Book Group, open to everyone in the community and centered on works by Bay Area authors. Bookshop’s next community selection is the enchanting but thoroughly unsentimental book, Little Heathens by Cupertino author Mildred Armstrong Kalish. ... (more)“This unpretentious yet deeply intelligent memoir of growing up on a central Iowa farm in the throes of the Great Depression radiates the joy of a vanished way of life as Kalish recounts what appear to contemporary eyes as unendurable deprivations,” says Booklist. The meeting will feature a discussion at 6:30pm facilitated by Julie Minnis, followed by a dialogue with 7:00pm. Little Heathens will be discounted to the whole community at 10% off its cover price from May 21st until the June 16th meeting date (for those last minute readers!). We hope you’ll join us. PS—There will be snacks and tea!!

"Little Heathens" offers a loving but realistic portrait of a "hearty-handshake Methodist" family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish's memoir of her childhood shows how the ... (more)right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like "quite a romp.

Lisa will be discussing Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish