The Grey Sisters
- ISBN-10
- 1549845888
- ISBN-13
- 9781549845888
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-27
- Author
- Laura Snyder
Description
I wrote about the Grey Sisters because I couldn't get them off my mind. Mary is three and Motherless, as is her older sister Helen but the impact is heavier for Helen who knew her mother until she was fifteen. Mary never had a chance to relate, she lost her Mother when she was three days old. But she always had Helen who loved her tiny sister beyond the moon and back and never felt a loss. It was Helen who felt a deep sense of loss as she neared her adulthood. Their father was kind, loving and sometimes strict. He and Helen and her eighteen year old brother Donald ran the grocery store they owned. Mary ran register because she could keep Mary by her wide. Donald had the freedom Helen yearned for but never vocalized. The great depression still had the Country in a vise but people trimmed back and were surviving until the dust bowl hit Oklahoma and farmers no longer had food crops in their fields. The Grey family packed their old Model T full and headed for California. On their third on the road their automobile broke two struts on the back left wheel forcing them to enter a large migrant camp which had grown up by the roadside. until money was made to fix the car. and the story begins after no work found in several days.
