Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner400 pages
Completed 5/24/10
An account of Gildiner's own 1950s childhood, full of town characters, her religious school-based upbringing, and the challenges that came along with those, shapes this book from the very beginning.
Employed at her father's pharmacy at four, put on delivery duty with the one African American man in town soon after, Gildener's sharp humor amuses throughout this memoir without being predictable.
A good memoir about coming of age in a time before my own, with an undercurrent of self-discovery, this memoir was good, but not one that I'd recommend.
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