A Secret Gift by Ted Gup is a unique blend of narrative history coupled with various personal stories relating to the Great Depression of the 1930s. This time period shaped a generation and has a strong correlation to the current “Great Recession.” The reader is taken back more than seventy years to Ohio, when successful retailer Sam Stone places an ad in the local Canton newspaper soliciting families in need. Sam uses the pseudonym B. Virdot and asks individuals to write him with their stories of hardship. Over 150 families receive a small amount from “Mr. Virdot” to help make Christmas bright during this difficult time. Not until Sam’s grandson, writer Ted Gup, uncovers this hidden mystery and reveals the many hardships these families endured do we understand Sam’s motive and purpose. A Secret Gift truly makes you appreciate what we have today and how desperate people were during this life-changing era. [Also in audiobook.] -Kathy (Downtown)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Book Review: A Secret Gift
A Secret Gift by Ted Gup is a unique blend of narrative history coupled with various personal stories relating to the Great Depression of the 1930s. This time period shaped a generation and has a strong correlation to the current “Great Recession.” The reader is taken back more than seventy years to Ohio, when successful retailer Sam Stone places an ad in the local Canton newspaper soliciting families in need. Sam uses the pseudonym B. Virdot and asks individuals to write him with their stories of hardship. Over 150 families receive a small amount from “Mr. Virdot” to help make Christmas bright during this difficult time. Not until Sam’s grandson, writer Ted Gup, uncovers this hidden mystery and reveals the many hardships these families endured do we understand Sam’s motive and purpose. A Secret Gift truly makes you appreciate what we have today and how desperate people were during this life-changing era. [Also in audiobook.] -Kathy (Downtown)
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