A Chair for My Mother
Reviewed by Sherry Early
A Chair for My Mother is a beautiful homely story about a girl whose family experiences a fire in their apartment. No one is hurt, but all of their possessions are destroyed in the fire. Their community and family come together to give them things to help them start again, but the one thing they don’t have is a soft, comfortable chair for the girl’s mother to relax in after a hard day of work at the diner. So the family begins to save up their money in a big jar to buy a chair for mother (and grandmother who lives with them). It’s such a good book about a working class family and about how families work together to manage their money and save for something important. I feel as if the book teaches gratitude and delayed gratification and teamwork and so much more, but in a story, not a sermon.

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A Chair for My Mother
It's rare to find so much vitality, spontaneity, and depth of feeling in such a simple, young book....

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