Haven's Wake Contributor(s): Randolph, Ladette (Author) |
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ISBN: 080324357X ISBN-13: 9780803243576 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Religious - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012033405 |
Series: Flyover Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.56" W x 8.4" (0.66 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |