Roberta Allen: 2 books

The challenges of staying solvent in later years can be fierce. The Solvency Struggle chronicles the yearlong personal struggle of one grandmother to wrestle with this reality. Other "year of books" are academic exercises, undertaken by authors who have other options readily available. Here...

The history of women simmers away on the back burner of time—largely forgotten. Some foremothers left lingering traces in treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation but not mine. My great-grandmothers’ kitchen chronicles can never be retrieved. My grandmothers—one gone twenty-two...