Memoir Review: "The Home for the Friendless" by B Auchard

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Memoir Review: "The Home for the Friendless" by Betty Auchard

Although this memoir, written by award-winning author Betty Auchard, is the story of just one family making their way through life during the Great Depression, most readers will find echoes of their own lives in these stories of childhood. Auchard's writes of her unconventional family's efforts to live out their dreams during one of the most difficult times in our nation's history, and her story is infused with good humor and pathos.

While Betty's dysfunctional family experiences some of life's real hardships, they are ever the optimists that life can be better. Where others would falter when faced with the challenges they come across (substandard housing, lack of money, a dependence on relatives for survival at times), Auchard and her siblings always manage to find the joy in life and rise to the occasion. They adapt to parents who fight, split, and come together again.