Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs #3) [J0481]

1950 HCDJ, a clean book in a worn Mylar-protected jacket. The author of The Egg and I continues her hilariously candid memoir series as she enters the job market at the worst possible time—the Great Depression. "The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." So begins Betty MacDonald's singular chronicle of trying to make ends meet (in Washington State) amid the worst economic downturn in American history. After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The most fun you can have reading about the depression! Genuinely wonderful, I love her."; "I love the peek into life in the 1930s and how some of it is still so relevant."; "I loved reading every minute of Betty's story. It is a wonderful look into the past that is not just a story from a history book or historical fiction but the life of a woman wading her way through the depression and finally on the other side of self discovery, financial strain and job hunting. This book is warm and uplifting in many ways but also teaches endurance, the power of family and friends and a good attitude."