Mendel's Children: A Family Chronicle | 
| Author: Cherie Smith
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 3096915
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 175
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1895176859
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781895176858
ASIN: 1895176859
Publication Date: October 1997
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Condition: Some slight wear on book from reading, binding and pages are in very good shape.
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Ordinary family rendered extraordinary May 26, 1998
In honest, unpretentious and clean prose leavened with dry humor, Smith tells an engrossing and upbeat story. With tantalizing recipes and charming photographs Mendel's Children has something of the character of a family scrapbook.
Book breathes life into family May 26, 1998
Its depth comes from Smith's formidable ability to breathe life into the time worn stories and people that preceeded her. In this her book shares the light story-telling charms of her fellow prairie author, Garrison Keillor. But in the serious and poignant moments that balance the humor, Smith's touch could be compared to Gay Talese in Unto the Sons.
Freshness. insight and humor May 26, 1998
Cherie Smith investigates the past with freshness, insight, and humor, but entirely without pretense. Saints and sinners, Mendel's Children have one thing in common: they are folks you would have enjoyed meeting.
 Authentic May 26, 1998
No historian or general reader will doubt the authenticity of her portrayal of life in small Canadian towns or regret coming across such a work
Storytelling skill May 26, 1998
Written with such storytelling skill, with such honest and compassionate clarity, that the reader turns page after page with growing fascination.
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