In the Land of the Shoes : 9781621370079 : 24 Apr 2012 : It came to her when she was on her knees, frantically searching for two dollar bills - the only money in the house until Friday when she hoped her husband would be paid. All this fuss over two measly dollars. And that is what triggered the memory: "That shoe! I'm living in the land of the shoes." The title of Nancy Lund's memoir comes from the moment when she remembered herself at age six finding a strange object and being told it was a shoe "probably dropped off the rag-pickers wagon". A sheltered child of an upper-middle class family, she had never seen a shoe that wasn't polished, without a heel, laces or neat little buttons. She tried to imagine what kind of a creature could wear the flat, shapeless thing - maybe a tribe of one-footed people who flitted about in the sky. She never thought of it again until at the age of thirty-three, needing to buy milk for her kids, she realized that she herself was living in the land of th