15th Printing; Tight, unmarked; waterstain to bottom edge of blue cloth covers - does not transfer to dust jacket; age tanning; a few closed tears to upper edge of dust jacket; price clipped; Chronicled by her aspiring-writer daughter, Mama is the matriarch of an immigrant Norwegian family in 1910 San Francisco. She and her husband bring up their four children with great humor and hope, amid genteel poverty in a new land. Meddling relatives, illnesses and near-death draw the family together, and all are close to Mama, the one person who can make things right Fair in Fair dust jacket Hardcover Harcourt, Brace & World 1973 New York, NY
