Kimberly F. (buterfliii) reviewed on 12/14/2005 + 22 more book reviews

In a stark troubling, yet ultimately triumpahnt celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A.Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilt and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Eleen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her 2 children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill-a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine-where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the strength the endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

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