The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less
Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
- 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The contester -- Rhyme does pay -- Supermarket spree -- The sleeping giant -- Father of the year -- Too damned happy -- Defiance -- Tickle hills -- Poet laureate -- Giant steps -- Name that sandwich -- The affadaisies -- Round robin -- Going, going, gone -- Hell and high water -- Mrs. Etchie -- Such a thing as destiny -- Rock bottom -- Her weight in gold -- A truckload of birds.
The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.