Description: Three years earlier, Hattie's entire family died in a tenement fire. Now, in 1923, she travels from New York to Nebraska to start over. But her beginning with Henry and Elizabeth Jansen is far from auspicious. The Jansens run a farm and need help because Elizabeth is bedridden. And Elizabeth is bedridden because of her own sadness over her son's death and her daughter's stillbirth. How can the Jansens possibly love an orphan? Still grief-stricken and bitter herself, Hattie hardly wins over the Jansens immediately. But as time passes, a bond develops, and a dramatic turn of events makes this clear to all. Beautifully written, Jane Buchanan's first novel is a spare and sensitive story about adapting, both to loss and to a new way of life.

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