Holes in My Shoes: One Family Survives the Great Depression

by Alice Breon

Journey back eighty years to a time of drugstore soda fountains, penny candy, homemade root beer, and ten-cent movies. Visit an era when people enjoyed such simple pleasures as sitting on the front porch, visiting with neighbors in the evening while the children played "kick the can" in a street devoid of traffic. What was life like in a world that had no television, cell phones, answering machines, computers, DVDs, electronic games, microwaves? Were those people happy? Yes, in spite of the Great Depression, they were happy and resourceful. Follow one family as it lives through a time in America's history when everyone's future was uncertain; when everyone cared and shared.

134 pages, Hardcover

First published November 8, 2012

Reviews

[Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fast read. Each chapter is a short story about a different time or event in the author's life and I enjoyed looking back into the life of someone that lived during the depression and reading her stories of what it was like when she was a child without all of the technology and such we have today. Kids actually played and used their imagination to entertain themselves. And while we hear about how much people had to do without, it makes you stop and think when reading her stories and what you think you might have done during that time or how you would have reacted to the situation.

[Kristy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting look in how people lived then. Who was the proof reader? Mistakes galore.

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice memories that many of us have heard from the last generation.