Egg's summation read, "Life on a wilderness chicken ranch" (October 3, 1945). The book's publication announcement in The New York Times in no way foreshadowed Egg's soon-to-be-global success. Betty's biting and somewhat self-deprecatory humor coupled with her wittily original prose captivates war-weary readers, and the book becomes a gargantuan success. American readers flock to bookstores to purchase Egg, the loosely autobiographical story of MacDonald's years as a young bride on a chicken ranch in the Chimacum valley on the Olympic Peninsula. On October 3, 1945, Lippincott publishes Betty MacDonald's (1907-1958) debut book, The Egg and I.
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