5-Star review in entirety published at Amazon for my Nonfiction Collection, '100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s':
Totally blown away by this funny, punny, sunny trip down memory lane - the author's childhood sounds idyllic although her hardworking and very caring father died at age 38, leaving her mother, 9-year-old sister, and 12-year-old Eva to build on a strong and loving family foundation and bravely go forth like heroes with angels to guide them. Lighthearted and with its own beat like the music of the Beach Boys, the author brings to life an iconic decade while touching on its more somber aspects like the Kent State student killings, the Vietnam War, the assassination of JFK, the Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Written as an innocent and joyful memoir of a childhood from sixty years ago, the stories are a hoot to read. The writing style is fast-paced and playful. Some of the references apply only to the American small-town scene at that time but enough is part of my own Canadian memories that I related to the 100 Wild Mushrooms (a vague tease of a title never fully explained) tales and reminiscences.
Surely the author's parents saw to it that they provided, as a Quaker character once said in a movie, a "happy childhood" for their children!
Lots of fun to read and educational, too, for the generations that came after the Baby Boomers of today.
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