商品簡介
Farmer's Daughter — And I Can Prove It is a humorous reflection on growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s on an Iowa farm. Satirizing a 40th high school reunion, author Resa Willis reminisces about life lessons rooted in rural life: hard work, education, family, community, and, of course, the old joke — sex! The chapters are peppered with eccentric relatives and quirky townsfolk, including an aunt who spent the day in a tree with her packed suitcase, waiting for the end of the world; an uncle who believed that the phone company plotted JFK's assassination; the school bus driver whose false teeth would fly from his mouth as he harangued his young passengers; and many more! Willis recounts how the farm community came together at harvest times, and pays homage to her hard-working, no nonsense parents who fostered her love of literature and music.The humorous vignettes shared in Farmer's Daughter will bring smiles to readers of both rural and urban backgrounds. Even if “you can't go home again,” home is always with you, and Resa Willis proves it!
作者簡介
Resa Willis is a Professor Emeritus of English at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. She is the author of Mark and Livy, the Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him, based on the marriage of Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon Clemens, and FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends, which explores the relationship of President Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.
