Primeros reseñadoresElma Schemenauer

It’s 1970. Bashful Susie, a Vancouver pill addict’s daughter, sets out to build a better life for herself.

Fellow Mennonite Simon loves her courage—and her. But marrying him comes with a pushy, sanctimonious mother-in-law, Adeline. She manipulates Susie and Simon into leaving their beloved British Columbia grassland and moving to her Saskatchewan farming community. There, a shocking secret plunges Simon into depression and drinking. As Susie struggles to find a way forward, she gains a new resilience, empathy, and understanding of faith and freedom.

This novel features some of the same characters as Elma Schemenauer’s 1940s-era novel Consider the Sunflowers, published by Borealis Press in 2014.