Both are set during the Great Depression, and they center on Grandma Dowdel, a trickster figure with a dab hand at piecrust, as told through the admiring memories of her grandchildren. She takes a dim view of cops and bankers, and when she’s not making gooseberry pies she foils evictions, catches catfish out of the country club’s stream to feed the needy, and undermines the social pretensions of the DAR.
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Date: 2020-06-03 11:25 am (UTC)That sounds brilliant.