Bannock Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression

Bannock Beans and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood in the Great Depression by Gallant, John. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781896597782.

A stark, brutally honest memoir illustrated by one of the worlds great cartoonists. This is a gripping and poignant memoir recounting one boys experiences of deprivation and poverty growing up in a rural farming village during the Great Depression. The short stories are written by John Gallant and illustrated by his son Seth, better know to many as the New Yorker illustrator and award-winning D+Q cartoonist behind the books Its a Good Life, If You Dont Weaken and the sumptuous Vernacular Drawings. Written with a concise honesty and clarity, the stories reveal the sad reality of a boy growing up in brutal social and economic conditions.