![]() 209) "Elsa bowed her head in prayer." "She prayed to the Virgin Mary."(p. 205) "She trusted God to watch out for them." (p. 182) Letter ended with an exchange of prayers. ![]() 139) Elsa called the Great Plains "God forsaken" and said she "didn't say that lightly". 68) The family went to church even in the hard times. 4 a girl agrees to convert to Catholicism for love. to "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" and "the desires it aroused" (p. On a scale of 1 - 5 (5 being a lot of examples/instances): I was reading this while we had reading time in my classroom - not a good idea, I don't like to cry in front of my students. This is a great read - but be warned, the ending is sad. ![]() Wolcott sells farm machines during a time of great recovery after the drought of 1908 a time when horse and buggies have only recently been replaced by cars.Įlsa loves to read and the novel contains allusion to many literary classics. The book opens in Dalhart, Texas with the Wolcott family. The cover talks about an "agonizing choice" - fight or flight, but as soon as the Prologue you read that she fled. ![]() There is a spoiler, right off the jacket cover. Click " here " to open new page link to Amazon. ![]()
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