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Originally Posted by kennyc
I haven't read the postings yet, and I tried reading more of the book today and I'm really just not getting into it....I think my brain is just stuck in non-fiction mode.....
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Originally Posted by dreams
This is a nonfiction book. It's about her life when first married and on their chicken farm.  |
You are both right, dear friend.
It is fiction in the sense of "narrative". It is nonfiction in the sense that it has not been invented, being about her life.
Dreams has given us fascinating details about that sort of life, with precious pictures and descriptions, and her personal testimony, through her grandmother. The egg and I plus dreams contributions becomes, not only in the eyes of dreams, almost an essay.
Personally I think that the book in itself is fiction. But I enjoyed dreams lore very much. I could also offer similar testimonies of rural lifestyles of those times, in an other geographical setting.