At the time, such remarks were common and considered accurate. There is one big negative to this book, which was typical of the time period (this book was originally published in 1945): racist remarks towards Native Americans. In many ways she’s a very practical person, but she’s still a city girl moving to the country, so there’s plenty for her to learn. I like that she had a belly and rough hands and messy hair. She was considered rather too tall for the times, being 5 ft 9 in. The story starts off with a brief, but laughter-inducing, account of Betty’s school years leading up to her whirlwind romance with Bob, their marriage, and then moving to the Pacific Northwest in search of heaven – a chicken farm of their own! Betty isn’t your typical heroine with perfect hair and stylish figure. Filled with humor, there’s plenty of odd characters, hardships to over come, new foods to be explored, and eggs to be gathered, cleaned, and packaged for sale. The Egg and I is a mostly autobiographical account about Betty MacDonald’s time on a chicken farm in the late 1920s in Washington state.
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