The Canning Season

Summary

With dark humor, touching insight, and uncensored language, this Newbery Honor author crafts an irresistible tale of life's unforgettable moments. While Ratchet Clark's life has never been precisely normal, her mother's decision to send her to visit two ancient great aunts in Maine for the summer is weird even by her family's standards. As the summer unfolds, her aunts fill Ratchet in on all the details of their memorable lives, including servants eaten by bears, a groom dumped at the altar, and their mother's gruesomely ingenious suicide.