Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told

By Tom Phelan

Book Overview

Part human comedy and part mystery, Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told is an enthralling, masterful story about what holds a village together and what keeps people apart. When journalist Patrick Bracken... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628724285
• ISBN13: 9781628724288
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Reminded me of my father born in 1917 in the brutal, setting of north dakota in the tough years of t

I loved the book and had some strong feelings on how they cared for their large brood of children and their. interesting neighbors. I loved the parents working together to make the world a better place for their children and the very comedic friends. Author of course was Tom Phalen. This book is such a great picture for the reader of the stuggle of life in a hard place to prosper, but with lots of love woven into their great love for their children. I'm so glad I could provide this story to my friends in our book club. The father reminded me so much of the way people came together to help each other overcome the poverty of the rural landscape and how hard it was to keep a small rural, farm going at a time when lots of people, cared for others, my own father, had to sleep on a cold room in a house stacked with 9 children, and a father who cared so much for his wife and children, that they cleaned everyone up befrore the big event each Sunday, so everyone could go to church and care for others who had much less, here are some things that jumped out to me: flea catching after bathing by the fire in the kitchen; using the "pig Pot cooling the hot water in a whirlwind, the mother "Then his wife, she held the, pan over his Dad's head, the soapy water falling into the basin like liquid iciles, then he scooped water over his head with the same intensity. Our Saturday night ablutions, completed Mom and Dad lifted the bathful of used water onto two chairs facing each other to " get it ouf of the way " and then we were sent to bed, hot water bottles under our oxters. Years later I realized that Mam had bathed in the baa water after the we children had gone to sleep."