Wonderful book.
Excellent writing!
Great storyteller.
This is a fictional adaptation of Brink's lived experience... or rather, her father's. This is not biographical or autobiographical but more about the life of a pioneer doctor in the area of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho and how a many of many talents, envies, and ego can change his family, and a whole town....for the better and the worse... just by being himself, boldly.
It was a joy to read. ( )

Excellent evocation of small town life.

The story follows the lives of three doctors, and their families @ the turn of the 20th century in Moscow, ID. We experience the town, named Opportunity in the novel, grow and the characters react to change, time and each other.

Brink based her novel on historical incidents within her own family and the development of Moscow ID. This is the first in a trilogy of novels. ( )