Book Info enlarge picture The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir   Author: Nicole Lea Helget ISBN: 0873515889 Format: Publish Date:         /bookfreeway/freewaycompare?isbn=0873515889&src=The+Summer+of+Ordinary+Ways:+A+Memoir          Book Review From Publishers Weekly Helget's debut begins with a staggering example of her father's brutality: he mercilessly beats a cow to death for not weaning her calf. Yet Helget refuses to succumb to a "woe is me" attitude, and she layers vignettes to create a lyrical story of growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1980s, where her mother verges on insanity, her five unruly younger sisters get underfoot, and death...