347 May Dixon has never met a problem she couldn't solve--signs of her tinkering are all over her late-1940s Indiana farm--but she never thought she'd be inventing a whole new kind of family.
Faced with losing her husband, May pulls herself together and comes up with a plan.
People think it's crazy to shell peas with a clothes-wringer, too, she tells herself.
But it works.
Alive with the sensory detail of a mid-century farm household, from the golden glow of h.