"[Emmaline] Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold, rural, Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960s, Emmy doesn't see that she has any say in her life, any choices at all. Only when Emmy's fiancé shows his true colors and forces himself on her does she find the courage to act--falling instead for a forbidden Catholic boy, a boy whose family seems warm and encouraging after the sere Nelson farm life"--
- ISBN10 1410480151
- ISBN13 9781410480156
- Publish Date 24 June 2015 (first published 10 March 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Imprint Wheeler Publishing Large Print
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 690
- Language English