Product Details
Simon & Schuster, September 2005
Movie Tie-In Edition Trade Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0743273931
ISBN-13: 9780743273930
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated ideas about women, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for innovation, all the while raising her six sons and four daughters with the belief that miracles are an everyday occurrence.