Ghostbread

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 When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. 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. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood