Pie Town Woman

Joan Myers

. . . a remarkable, often moving account that combines one womans nostalgic recollections of uncommonly hard times, and insightful analysis of Lees photographic legacy, and family snapshots. ." . . highly visual book. . illiminateYs? both the stark reality and the compelling beauty of Plains ruins. . . Joan Meyers uses photographs, letters, interviews and determined sleuthing to richly detail the brimming life such places contained." ""Pie Town Woman" describes the back-breaking manual labor of subsistence agriculture and the drudgery of housekeeping." "Myers has given us an invaluable glimpse into the history of a small community that has become almost a ghost town." "The reader is not only engaged by the photos and absorbed by Myers's account of one spunky woman's perspective on homesteading in New Mexico- but is also engrossed by Myers's thought-provoking questions." YMyers? . . . is a thoughtful writer whose prose seems effortless and transparent . . . and makes a whole community of individuals come to life in a real page-turner. Myers has done an admirable job in telling Doris story, and focusing on an often overlooked region. ." . . a remarkable, often moving account that combines one woman's nostalgic recollections of uncommonly hard times, and insightful analysis of Lee's photographic legacy, and family snapshots."