Jep's Place: Hope, Faith and Other Disasters

Jep’s Place is a vivid account of growing up during The Great Depression on a hardscrabble farm in a family of 13 children of former sharecropping Polish immigrants. The isolated farm at the end of a dirt road has no electricity, telephone or running water. The drafty farmhouse is often heated only by a kitchen woodstove. The children’s bedrooms have no heat. The fire in the kitchen stove dies during the night, and frost forms on the children’s bedroom ceilings. Water left on the stove in a...