Jell-O girls a family history
(2018)
By:
Rowbottom, Allie
Nonfiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/306.87/ROWBOTTOM,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018
©2018
©2018
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION
385 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781432854140, 1432854143 :, 1432854143, 9781432854140
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In 1899, the author's uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generation that followed enjoyed privilege--but were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years later, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with incurable cancer, the disease that claimed her own mother's life. Mary began researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed