Buck’s “The Good Earth,” Theodore Dreiser’s “Tragic America,” and Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Songs: Minnie the Moocher When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain Goodnight, Sweetheart and I Found a Million-Dollar Baby (in a Five & Ten Cent Store).Movies: “City Lights” with Charlie Chaplin, “Frankenstein” with Boris Karloff, and “Flowers and Trees,” Disney’s first color film.In the U.S, 2500 banks fail and unemployment is at 8 million.Herbert Hoover is the 31st President of the United States.Let’s revisit 1931 and see what was happening in the popular culture: I’ve got some facts about 1931 to share with you today.īy 1931, America was 11 years into Prohibition and two years into the Great Depression. How can she ignore what is happening right under their very noses? Yet can she risk everything by condemning the man whose love and generosity is keeping her and her family from ruin?

But when the reality of her situation finally becomes clear, Eve is faced with a dilemma.

Thrilled to be moving to a “safe haven,” Eve is blissfully unaware that her uncle’s lodge is a transfer station for illegal liquor smuggled from Canada.Įve settles in to work and makes new friends, including an enigmatic but affecting young man. At seventeen, she considers her family to be “good people.” They aren’t lawbreakers and criminals like so many people in her old neighborhood. Paul seemed like a haven for gangsters, and Eve had grown fearful of living there. Eve’s uncle Cyrus has invited the family to live and work at his Marryat Island Ballroom and Lodge. Paul, Minnesota, and moving back to his Ohio roots. When Eve Marryat’s father is laid off from the Ford Motor Company in 1931, he is forced to support his family by leaving St. I have some facts about 1931 to share, and you can read my book review!

Sweet Mercy is a stunning coming-of-age drama set during the Great Depression and Prohibition. Prohibition….Gangsters….Bootleggers….Al Capone….and a 17-year-old girl named Eve Marryat who, in the tumultuous summer of 1931, learns the meaning of….Sweet Mercy.

Promises to keep by ann tatlock