title: Eleanor and Harry
author/editor: Steve Neal
reviewed by: MM

I joined a book club at our local library. The book we are reading is Eleanor and Harry by Steve Neal. This book is a composite of letters written from Eleanor to Harry and Harry to Eleanor until 1962 when Eleanor died.

I really liked the book because it is written in journal or letter writing. (Those are two of my favorite things!) There was humor and genuine respect for each other. They had disagreements, but they were able to achieve great conversations. A statement at the end of the book covers it all. This was said at Eleanor's funeral, "Harry was an organizer and Eleanor was a reformer. It takes both to make a beautiful world."

MM adds, "My dad owned a grocery store/ gas station in the time when Eleanor and Harry were writing letters. One time my dad even got tires off the black market for our preacher. "

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