Anglický jazyk

A Distant Home

Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
Rok vydania: 2010
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781450204958

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O knihe

It is 1920 in western Kansas and the house
that David had promised Emily, his bride of fifteen months,
is still unfinished due to a failed wheat crop the previous
summer. Forced to move into the crowded, unfinished home of
her extended family, Emily is miserable. Worst of all, she
must face the fact that, due to his parents' influence, the
once sweet and lovable David is becoming increasingly
hostile toward her and their newborn daughter.

David's family resents Emily because she is well-educated
and a suffragist, but Emily is determined to make her
marriage work, using her ingenuity to deal with their cruel
comments and prejudice. When the school board arrives on her
doorstep one morning to announce their immediate need for a
teacher, Emily is torn. The family is povertystricken, but
no one in David's family is offering to watch her baby.
After she turns down the job to focus on her wifely duties,
her father comes to visit.
Appalled at the barren
surroundings and her living situation, Emily's father thinks
his little girl has wandered into the wrong place. Is he
right or can Emily prove him wrong?