Olivia is a woman before her time. This historical novel is so compelling you won't be able to put it down from start to finish. The laws of the time play an important part in the works of Olivia and her family. The only answer for her to have a meaningful life is to leave the town,family and store she has known her whole life. She is a single woman (young girl actually) who makes a decision to go to a farm that can be hers by homesteading there. The setting is Michigan in the eighteen hundreds and details of the country and the way of life became alive and real. I found myself fearful Olivia would not take her adventure that life had offered her......however she DID!!
Mourning is a young man whose parents had died early on. He was a black boy in a small town and existed by doing jobs for anyone who would hire him often offering him a place to spend the night in the barn and have some food. Mourning became very skillful in many jobs learning what tool and how to use them. He and Olivia were friends from forever living in the town, knowing the same people, his working for her family. They trusted each other and could read each other....she actually taught him how to read and he did some teaching to her of how to read character in a person.
They left separately with plans to join up and go to the inherited farm together. The plan worked. I became very tired with all the work that was involved establishing the homestead. The cabin was practically torn down from neglect and so was the barn. Their strength pulled them through many days and much needed jobs. I won't go on from there with the story line but it is horrendous. I did not see it coming at all. It was a complete surprise what happened in the ending of the book BUT very typical of that time and place I am sure.
My book was downloaded from Amazon onto my Kindle and your must get yours right away and begin this read...you will find it fascinating. I am looking forward to the next book in the series. Yael Politis is a dynamite writer.
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I found myself praying for Olivia and Mourning. Black and white did not mingle in that day and age.
I found myself praying for Olivia and Mourning. First as she tried to convince him to help her move to Michigan and farm. Remember--this was a time when women were definitely second class citizens. And Mourning was a young black man--Black and white did not mingle in that day and age.They really were friends and helped each other. Then something happened------
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