There is a reason that Anne Ellis who never completed higher than maybe a 4th grade education received an honorary degree from the Universtity of Colorado. This is the second book after Life of an Ordinary Woman and provides a great accurate glimpse of the life in the mining towns and the life of a woman and her deep feelings.
I enjoyed reading about Anne and her life while she was "chasing the cure" in the 1920s. With limited resources she left family and traveled to the Southwest in search of a cure for her 'asthma'. Her writing style reminded me of my grandma's style.