The Tall Woman Author:wilma Dykeman Lydia McQueen was tall, royally tall, and her shadow fell across her valley and over the surrounding mountains. This is the chronicle of her struggle - often heroic - against nearly insurmountable odds: a husband sickened and embittered by war, an oldest son whose brain was permanently impaired at birth, the shadow of her neighbors fear and envy... more »... But Lydia McQueen, in this powerful story, hews a home from the strange and stubborn green hills.« less