Crackers and Milk

Crackers and Milk by Arlene Nelson. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780979199400.

Sarah Richards, the oldest of five children growing up in the early 20th Century rural Midwest, struggles to hold her family together as she and her three siblings attempt to survive illness, abandonment, abuse, negelct, hunger, institutionalization, and loss. In Crackers and Milk, Arlene Nelson retells her mothers amazing story of an unusually tarnished childhood, as her mother told it to her many years ago. Readers of all ages will not be able to put this book down, nor will they ever forget the stength, determination, loyalty and resilience of this extradorinaty girl.