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Jul 23, 2017aafleming rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Wow, just wow!! I am amazed by some of the comments here from people who apparently know nothing about history. This book was written in the 1940s. They did not have political correctness then. If you met members of another race or culture and didn't like them, you were free to say so. I'm so sorry if this upsets you. Perhaps you could initiate a movement to rewrite all of literature from the beginning of time so that it is politically correct for 2017, if that would make you feel better. I would also like to point out that Betty MacDonald was in fact sued by several people who claimed they were portrayed in the this book, and she WON the lawsuit. All of that said, I grew up reading Betty MacDonald's books, loved them, and still do. All of them take place in Washington State. "The Egg and I" was her first and most well known best-seller. It is a hilarious although highly fictionalized account of her life on a chicken farm with her first husband, and she was indeed an early feminist in that, in HER time, it was not considered acceptable for women to express their dislike of the lives their husbands expected them to lead.