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Making Piece

Grant Wood said that when he painted American Gothic, he depicted the people he “fancied should live in the house.” Eighty years later, the woman living in the house looks nothing like the grim spinster in the painting. This hour, host Charity Nebbe travels to Eldon Iowa to visit Beth Howard, the author of the new book Making Piece, a Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa