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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Terry Ryan
How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
Simon and Schuster
September 2005
352 pages ISBN: 0743273931 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn
Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with
wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of
the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her
alcoholic husband, and antiquated ideas about women, Evelyn
turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for
innovation, all the while raising her six sons and four
daughters with the belief that miracles are an everyday
occurrence. The inspiration for a major motion picture,
Evelyn Ryan's story is told by her daughter Terry with an
infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit and sense of
humor can triumph over adversity every time.
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