Rosebloom Author:Christine Keleny "Rosebloom" is a 2008 Indepentent Publishers book award winner for historic fiction. Rose, a precocious young girl in 1930's Wisconsin, runs away from home to avoid going on to high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. Rose takes a job on the River boa... more »t "Capital," and is thrown in to the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi, from Prairie du Chien to New Orleans. "Rosebloom" takes place in a time in history that buffets Rose between the great depression and the coming wave of WWII. She gets herself into situations that test her reslove and teach her not only about herself but about the world of others, which she would have never known if she hadn't left her small farm in Southwest Wisconsin« less