Just under the wire! I received Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl as one of a dozen (literally) books for Christmas. In my family I’m the ‘allergy girl’ though reading Beasley’s account of 30 years of severe food allergies has me counting my blessings. This memoir is more informative than anecdotal; but rather than reading like a text book, Birthday Girl takes a dense subject for many and makes it entertaining. In 1992, Sandra’s fourth grade class was visited by a nutritionist regarding the newly developed […]