Haven's Wake

ISBN-13: 9780803243576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Ladette Randolph

Opis

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsa s voice on her estranged son s answering machine: Your father s dead. You ll probably want to come home. When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of this Mennonite family, the threads holding them together are suddenly drawn taut, singing with the tensions of a lifetime s worth of love and faith, betrayal and shame. Through the competing voices of those gathered for Haven Grebel s funeral, acts of loyalty and failures, long-suppressed resentments and a tragic secret are brought to light, expressing a larger, complex truth."