The Egg and I

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When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall - through chaos and catastrophe - this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor.

A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on the American frontier.

Betty MacDonaldHeather HendersonPost Hypnotic Press Inc.

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I really enjoyed it, the book is so witty, humorous, sometimes poetic in describing the scenery. I can't understand how someone can speak about racism, there is no racism there at all! She is just describing her experience with native Americans at that time and this place, it just happened she had very bad experience and why should she not describe frankly whom she came accross? because someone is not white they can't be criticised??? She has the same approach to describing with her humor white farmers, so are native Americans tabboo ? That would be racism vica versa.