I Curley

<p>Alda M. Figel-Sallier was an ordinary woman who lived an ordinary life but that doesnt mean her life was unimportant.</p><p></p><p>Known as Curley to her family for her curly hair she wrote her life story of stream-of-consciousness reflections which has been left unedited in this book with an introduction by her great-great granddaughter.</p><p></p><p>Sallier recalls growing up in rural Indiana in the 1870s and 1880s becoming a railway mans wife and then a mother. Through her eyes were shown flawed men and women tiny triumphs and crushing losses and what life was like for everyday people during a booming time in the United States of America.</p><p></p><p><em>I Curley</em> is a detailed look at what life was like at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century as told through an account of a life well lived.</p>