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Jell-O girls, a family history, Allie Rowbottom

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Jell-O girls

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1055027853

Allie Rowbottom

a family history

"In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege-but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than one hundred years after that deal was struck, Rowbottom's mother, Mary, was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer that had claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, bent on understanding the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of both Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Rowbottom boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not. Jell-O Girls is that story."--, Provided by publisher

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Jello girls, a family history