Sunshine Book Club -Midland

Join us for some "Sunshine" as we read and discuss books of all types! Adults only. 

 Books are available to pick up at the Midland  branch anytime the library is open. 

For more information, contact Tiffany at tseibert@thebookplace.org

May: Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalisz 

So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. With her father banished from the household for mysterious transgressions, five-year-old Mildred and her family could easily have been overwhelmed by the challenge of simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of suffering.

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 right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like -quite a romp.;