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Homestead Act II is the story of a family that through hard work, in good and bad times, endures the triumphs and tragedies of human nature, and over four generations creates a life rich in necessities and rewards out of untouched raw land, and ensures passage to future generations.

With detailed insight into how people lived in Louisiana in the early 1950s, this novel charts the life of a young woman whose fear of a dead-end future on her family's poverty stricken farm tempts her to temporarily escape to California. Out of her element she nevertheless finds pure love, but experiences a loss from which she cannot recover. Navigating the rapids and eddies of life, she is confined by an almost unbearable grief. Yet, there is a tough resiliency at her inner core that struggles to put the past, present and future where they belong.