![]() I could feel the crust of the snow and the warmth of the wood stove. This is a definite read if you've lived through life-threatening snow storms, driven a combine or sat on a tractor working far into the night just to finish a field. I found the combination delightful and easy to relate to my quiet Danish father and mother I thought was always old. ![]() Her assumptions colored her relationship with her parents, a familiar yet somewhat unexplored topic in books set in the west. The main character, a young girl becomes stronger as she loses her nearly perfect man and learns to see the best of all places, even the depths of tragedy and despair. ![]() I grew up on a dry land farm in eastern Montana and reading WINTER WHEAT was a thoroughly enjoyable trek back to my childhood sans hayfever or sloppy mud. Surely she could write about the unpainted house, the yard light, the wind breaks and snow without living on a farm, but her descriptions of winter wheat, the elevator, driving a truck and harvesting wheat are too real to just be observations or a result of research. Mildred Walker must have lived on a farm. ![]()
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