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Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

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Set against the colourful and changing backdrop of twentieth-century American history, the memoirs of a ninety-eight-year-old woman chronicle her life from the turn of the century, through two world wars and an abusive marriage, to the current day
Born in 1899, Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux evokes the early 20th-century Midwest with tactile vividness. She recalls traveling by horse-drawn wagon one cold Thanksgiving, with hot rocks and hay placed under the blankets. Her description of all-day laundry routines will make brand new women grateful for his or her washers and dryers. Foveaux’s account of a foul marriage and struggle to boost her eight kids has the similar immediacy and vigor as her childhood memories. Begun as a present to her grandchildren, this charming text speaks to all readers of the grace and nobility crafted from an “peculiar” life.

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