The Egg and I

I recently started re-visiting the Egg and I by Betty Bard MacDonald. I was sparked to read it again by a friend who stayed at the Betty MacDonald farm (now a bed and breakfast) on Vashon Island.  I'm determined to stay at the farm, myself, but wanted to re-read her books again to fully prepare.

Betty MacDonald Moved to Seattle when she was 10 (or 11) years old in 1918. She was married and moved out to a chicken farm in the Olympics in 1927.    The Egg and I is a wonderfully funny account of her years as a new wife on the chicken farm (she later remarried and moved to Vashon Island). 

The racist comments aside, you'll find her writing very funny.  It's also fascinating to read about the Pacific Northwest as a wild frontier in the 20s and 30s... an interesting piece of history.

You might also enjoy Betty Macdonald other memoirs: Anybody Can Do Anything (about her time as a single parent during the Great Depression), The Plague and I (about her time in a sanatorium with tuberculosis), and her famous Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series for young readers.