![]() ![]() Register and join the Brown Bag Book Club on Thursday, Jfor a virtual discussion of Life Among the Savages an unsentimental sometimes raucous account of mid-twentieth century domestic life. Good fun of the Erma Bombeck kind.” – Library Journal, 1997 ![]() This 1953 volume presents her take on living in an old house in Vermont. “Jackson, author of the famous The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery, here leaves her spooks behind to offer this portrait of horror of another kind–life in the suburbs. Laurie, Jannie, and Sally are alternately demanding, helpful, helpless, annoying, happy, disobedient, and perfectly wonderful in sickness and in health, in school, at home, in the department store, in the restaurant, or engaged in the complex lives of multiple imaginative friends.” – Publishers Weekly, 2015 A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The LotterySometimes, in my capacity as. And Lockford’s children’s voices are age appropriate and believable. “Reader Lockford handles domesticity in just the right tones: you’re hearing the inflections of the mildly sarcastic, self-deprecating, endlessly exasperated but always loving wife and mother. ![]()
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