Audio Book Description:
Even as a young girl, growing up in thebronx, Mary Higgens Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. The gift of storytelling was a part of her Irishancestry, so it followed naturally that she would later use hersharp eye, keen inteligence, and inquisitiveness nature to create stories.ALong with all Americans,citizens of thesuffered during the Depression.So when Mary` father died, her mother opened the family home home to boarders andplaced a sign next to the frontdoor which read, "Furnished rooms, Kitchen Privileges." The family`s struggle to make ends meet;her days as a scholorship student in an exclusive girls academy; the death of her beloved brother in WW2; her marriageto Warren Clark; writing stories at thekitchen table; finally sellingthe first one for one hundred dollars, after60 years and 40rejections-all these experinces figure into Kitchen Privilege
