In My Grandmother's House: Award-Winning Authors Tell Stories about Their Grandmothers

In My Grandmother's House: Award-Winning Authors Tell Stories About Their Grandmothers, ed. by Bonnie Christensen, presents a dozen recollections, including Minfong Ho's feelings of leaving her Ah Po behind to move to upstate New York (""I have moved so far away from her, strayed way off-center, when I settled into this spot half a world away from... where I grew up""); Alma Flor Ada's sensory memories of visiting her Cuban-born Abuelita, the smell of her grandmother's perfume and the taste of fresh milk, still warm in the pail; and the wit and wisdom of Jean Craighead George's maternal grandmother, who lived by the axiom, ""A bed made at once saves time in the crunch"" (as her grandmother begins to go blind, George writes, ""What she lacked in vision she made up in insight""). Christensen's drawings act as openers for each chapter.