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claudiamccarron's review against another edition
4.0
As you might expect for a book written about an impoverished family in the 1900's, there's a lot of dated content regarding race and class here. That said, it's still compelling, with some laugh-out-loud lines I'll keep coming back to. I found the parts about the Wiggs family just going about their daily lives and interacting with each other the strongest--when the upper-class charity workers Lucy and Michael show up, condescension seems to replace genuine understanding.
A really interesting read that demonstrates and challenges ideas on poverty, alcoholism, and the deserving poor in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that also still holds together as an entertaining story.
A really interesting read that demonstrates and challenges ideas on poverty, alcoholism, and the deserving poor in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that also still holds together as an entertaining story.
claudiamccarron's review against another edition
4.0
As you might expect for a book written about an impoverished family in the 1900's, there's a lot of dated content regarding race and class here. That said, it's still compelling, with some laugh-out-loud lines I'll keep coming back to. I found the parts about the Wiggs family just going about their daily lives and interacting with each other the strongest--when the upper-class charity workers Lucy and Michael show up, condescension seems to replace genuine understanding.
A really interesting read that demonstrates and challenges ideas on poverty, alcoholism, and the deserving poor in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that also still holds together as an entertaining story.
A really interesting read that demonstrates and challenges ideas on poverty, alcoholism, and the deserving poor in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that also still holds together as an entertaining story.
abiart's review against another edition
5.0
So this book I own and I have an edition from 1903! And in the book it was gifted Lotta from Fay on January 19th 1903. So the book itself is very special and is a very nice possession but the story. At first it was a three star, it was nice but nothing super impressive; But as I kept reading I started to get really invested in the characters and it was very memorable story for me.
kesterbird's review against another edition
2.0
The moral of this story is that the best thing to do, if you are poor, is get in the middle of a lover's spat between rich people who will fight by each trying to outdo the other in giving you things.
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