The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less /
Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
- 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
he author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s