![]() ![]() It’s about Seattle during the Depression and Betty’s wacky family-they’re all back home, living with the chain-smoking, novel-reading, mild-mannered mother-which is headed up by the oldest sibling, Mary, and how Mary gets Betty, who is divorced with two young daughters, a succession of odd jobs for which Betty is completely and utterly unqualified. She’s perhaps best known as the author of The Egg and I (1945), the book that gave rise to the characters Ma and Pa Kettle.īut as the gap between the rich and the poor grows ever wider, the book I’m turning to again is called Anybody Can Do Anything (1950). As popular in her day as David Sedaris-and every bit as funny- Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) retains a small but devoted following of which I’m a proud member. ![]()
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