A Roof Against the Rain - Ceroni, Mary Eldridge
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This is a story about how one large family lived through the years of "The Great Depression," from 1930 to 1943. It is seen primarily through the eyes of one of the younger children, Marcie, who is five when the story begins, in her last year of high school when it ends. It describes their first years in New Mexico, their journey in search of land in Arkansas, their return to the cotton patch in Texas, and finally their move to the little town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. As Marcie's world opens up, she tries at first to adjust and conform to it, but eventually decides to accept herself and her family just the way they are.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This is a story about how one large family lived through the years of "The Great Depression," from 1930 to 1943. It is seen primarily through the eyes of one of the younger children, Marcie, who is five when the story begins, in her last year of high school when it ends. It describes their first years in New Mexico, their journey in search of land in Arkansas, their return to the cotton patch in Texas, and finally their move to the little town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. As Marcie's world opens up, she tries at first to adjust and conform to it, but eventually decides to accept herself and her family just the way they are.
Autorenporträt
The ninth of fourteen children, Mary Lillian Eldridge was born October 17, 1925, in Seagraves, Texas. She attended grade schools in New Mexico and Texas, and finished high school in Roswell, New Mexico. She married Joseph Ceroni in 1946. Their only child, Veto, was born in 1947, and died in a car wreck in 1968. She received a BA degree in 1961 from the University of New Mexico. She has worked as a waitress in her husband's restaurant, taught English, and after her husband's death in 1975, raised and sold herbs in a local grower's market. She now lives in a retirement center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.