![]() ![]() ![]() I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote Vashon Island along with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her two teenage daughters. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. MacDonalds subsequent memoirs, The Plague And I, Anybody Can Do Anything, and Onions In The Stew were all produced between Eggs publication and MacDonalds. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine 8vo 8" - 9" tall 256 pages "For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ![]() DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ![]()
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