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Ghostbread by sonja livingston5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Along the way, the young Sonja observes the harsh realities her family encounters, as well as small moments of transcendent beauty that somehow keep them going. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something better. ![]() One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. A memoir of growing up poor and hungry in 1970s western New York: “Like an American version of Angela’s Ashes.”-Kathleen Norris, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk ![]()
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