Set in the 1880's, 16 year-old Minna Losk travels from the city of Odessa, in the Ukraine, to South Dakota as a mail-order bride for 40 year-old Max Getreuer. Minna's dreams of having her own house and handsome husband are quickly dashed when she sees the one-room sod house and Max's two teenage...
The fog had left in its wake a cloudless sky and a gusting wind that threw the leaves into perpetual frenzy. Emma tripped through the clean air, winding from house to hospital and back, fighting an almost constant urge to cover her eyes, retreat back into fog, see nothing clearly. She succeeded m...