Legacies

The premise here is quietly powerful — gathering first-time writers aged sixty and older who lived through the Depression and World War II and letting them tell their own stories. The range of the anthology is its strength, and the memoir format keeps it accessible. What holds it back is the inherent unevenness of any competition anthology and the near-total absence of critical documentation that would help readers know what to expect. Worth hunting down in a library if the subject resonates; hard to recommend as a purchase without more to go on.