You come to Yokum By Hurst, Carol Otis

Title: You come to Yokum
Author: Hurst, Carol Otis
Illustration: Kay Life.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Comments
CIP Info Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother's struggles to muster support for women's right to vote even as the family's life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the early 1920s. Good literature from this time period is almost impossible to find. This is well written if not well constructed. Each chapter is good, but I never figured out how they all worked together. So I was kind of confused. It was a good book, but no sure how it all works. The mother, Grace, is a suffragette. The family moves with family up to run a motel for the summer season. There Grace picks up the suffragette cause again there. In the end she dies of anaphylactic shock and they take her home for burial. There the suffragettes gather around her casket. The book tries to neatly tie up the loose ends. The father remarries, the boys leave home and one becomes a doctor. The ending is just a bit too neat. I think if the author was slightly more focused and didn’t try to fit so much into the book, it would have been much better.