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Beth DeCarbo
Author /
Journalist
Inspired by a Wall Street Journal article, the book offers a vivid portrait of rural America during a tumultuous time–when fuel shortages, grain embargoes, double-digit interest rates, and rampant inflation dismantled family-owned farms and decimated small businesses. But it also demonstrates the resilience of small, tight-knit towns like McPherson.
This October, Beth DeCarbo debuts her novel Mom & Pop Hardware: A Kansas Girl's Quirky Childhood at My Folks' Competing Stores.
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In her memoir, DeCarbo shares stories of selling nuts and bolts at her dad’s bustling hardware store on Main Street in rural Kansas. That is, unless she was selling nuts and bolts at the competing hardware store right next door. It was owned by her mother.
Launching Soon
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