In this insightful novel that takes place after the loss of the land the Barnes family has farmed for six generations, Vinita Hampton Wright touches that most basic human predicament, known as far back as the first parents and homesteaders, Adam and Eve. Griefs come to us all --- as universally and yet as personally as fingerprints.
Though written in third, not first, person, the story unfolds from alternating viewpoints of four of the five Barnes family members. There's Rita, a widow who has moved off what's left of the farm and into town --- that being the fictitious Beulah, Iowa, not far from Oskaloo