This book also talks about a mom who gave birth in an iron lung. And then she spent her days devoted to entering contests, and winning some of them, too!
"The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids..."
Maybe she made it into the film? I haven't seen the film.
"Julianne Moore is very good (it would be a strain for her to be bad) as an insuppressibly happy person. There are even a few wonderfully tasteless jokes involving a woman in a decorated iron lung. Then Harrelson barges into the room, evidently from another film, perhaps Natural Born Killers, and proceeds to defy everything the film has been setting up. Into this delightful and fanciful world of melodrama and defiance and winning-against-insurmountable-odds comes a cold, dark, bracing punch in the face of an abusive, thick-necked, broken, alky asshole. The financial hardship they all suffer at his hands is a very palpable thing. The kids live in fear of him. Why does Evelyn stay?"
~ Whitney Seibold
"The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Three Cheers for the Darkened Years!"
https://witneyman.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/the-prize-winner-of-defiance-ohio/
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