Lydia and the Smokehouse Review

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A sparce book in detail and in character description, Lydia and the Smokehouse takes the emotional route to tell its story. It is an old fashioned tear jerker without the layered wardrobe of yesteryear. A catharsis story that pokes the conscience and invokes one's inner character to do better, to be kinder, and to love a little more. It beats the reader down with the grim reality of the child, Lydia's oppression, while lifting one up with the love of a childless mailman intent on giving the little hero a better life. It is a thin book in pages but not in substance. It can be read in one sitting and usually is because there is tension from the deeds of the villain, Lester, and the desire to see him punished and the pathethic situation of the child Liddy relieved. Its flaw may be too little dialogue, but this lack may be offset by the fast moving story and the hope of the reader to hurry and see things "put right."


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During the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Liddy Pinkham loses his father. Liddy's situation worsens when he loses his mother and is placed in the home of his Uncle Lester. The hero in the story is Ed Mallory, a half-blind mailman who loves the boy, as does his wife Lily. They are foiled in their attempt to adopt Liddy and watch the child endure a miserable life with Lester Beaman. Liddy escapes his dark childhood by pretending to ride a magic carpet with a stray dog he calls Lady, but the brightest ray is a visit with Ed and Lily Mallory. When Lester is in desperate need of whiskey, he rents the boy to Ed. Liddy is literally put through fire. Will Liddy come out into the loving arms of Lily and Ed Mallory?

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