Growing up in 1950's Ames, Iowa presented the picture perfect childhood for author Susan Allen Toth. Toth lived in Ames until she left to go to school in the East in 1957. Sharing memories of competing/battling with her older sister, school, summers at the pool, girlfriends, fashions, slumber parties, dating, finding refuge at the library, getting a summer job and trips to the family cabin on a lake in Minnesota, Toth paints an idyllic childhood. It wasn't until a bit later I learned her father died while she was in grade school, and her mother worked as a teacher to support their family. Perhaps it is her ability to recall only that which took place in her immediate world. She has a gift of recalling an experience, an adventure and with words transporting her reader to that very time and place. Not only does she evoke the experience but the emotions. I grew up in Texas a decade later and had a very different childhood, but shared the same type memories.
Blooming is the first in what I consider a trilogy of Toth books. The next book details her college experiences at an Ivy League school and the third is a must read for anyone planning to attend their high school reunion. Each book benefits from her growing awareness and her realization that the world is not just Ames, Iowa. Each is touching and funny. Start with Blooming and read all three. These are book that are great to return to when you need the comfort of a familiar old friend.
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Mary G. Longorio
Familiar and comfortable
2009年3月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
mary r montgomery
Good book. Poor condition.
2021年7月11日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
G. Dunshee
I thoroughly enjoyed all the details
2014年11月11日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Barbara D. Drinkwater
I wish life were that simple again
2013年4月6日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Mary Jo Rhode
I love this book
2016年8月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
