Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

I picked this up at an awesome used bookstore whose profits go to help the homeless in NYC, so I'll probably be buying all my books there from now on, but, anyway...I think I finally found something that can keep my attention! Trust me, it is not easy to focus on a subway (altho when I do finally focus and get sucked into the book, I miss my stop...hah!) At any rate, Little Heathens is a memoir of a girl growing up on an Iowa farm during the Depression. She is five when the book begins in 1930. Is this the Silent Generation? I get my Generations confused, but it's definitely a very sweet story so far. You can tell when reading this book that Armstrong-Kalish didn't hate her childhood or even find herself deprived - quite the contrary, actually. She was constantly surrounded by cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc, and often lived with them when family members lost their farms. It's an interesting perspective from which to write a book...living through the depression but not entirely understanding what's going on. It's almost surreal. You should read this; it's really sweet and very well-written and I'm learning a lot about that period of our nation's history.