Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Gup, Ted |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 10/25/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring sufferingbut can also foster compassion and community.” –The Boston Globe
In hard economic times like these, readers will find bestsellingauthor Ted Gup’s unique book uplifting as well as captivating. Inside asuitcase kept in his mother’s attic, Gup discovered letters written tohis grandfather in response to an ad placed in a Canton, Ohio,newspaper in 1933 that offered cash to seventy-five families facing adevastating Christmas. The author travels coast to coast to unveil thelives behind the letters, describing a range of hardships andrecreating in his research the hopes and suffering of Depression-eraAmericans, even as he uncovers the secret life led by the grandfatherhe thought he knew.
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