Helpful Score: 2
In a stark,troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self determination A Manette Ansay recreate3s a stifling world of guilt and pain and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstances carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in laws on Vinegar Hill a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness....
This book I found was a bit slow going but with good purpose. It takes you on the journey of one family with a history of abuse and violence as well as unspeakable evil. It also focuses on difficult choices to be made concerning family and self. It tests the limits of what one person would do to save their family and themselves from having history repeat itself.
This book I found was a bit slow going but with good purpose. It takes you on the journey of one family with a history of abuse and violence as well as unspeakable evil. It also focuses on difficult choices to be made concerning family and self. It tests the limits of what one person would do to save their family and themselves from having history repeat itself.
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