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Pat Benedict Jurgens
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Falling Forward: A Woman's Journey West
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Reviews of Falling Forward, a Woman's Journey West
“…an engaging slice of history… Jurgens skillfully integrates into this intensely personal struggle a realistic and colorful narrative of a West that is in transition from the wild and woolly to a modernizing and urbanizing world on the threshold of automobiles and airplanes.”
--BlueInk Review
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Falling Forward, a Woman's Journey West
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updated Feb 08, 2021 04:42PM
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How far will she follow her dreams?
Ohio farm country, 1897. Louisa, the spirited eldest daughter of Herzig and Clara Steinbacher, has her whole life ahead of her. She is seventeen, and dreams of the “outside world” beyond her doorstep. But when Clara dies in childbirth, Louisa is suddenly thrust into adulthood—with the burden of her mother’s responsibilities…and the care of her younger siblings. Isolated in a Mennonite community with strict religious doctrine and expectations, the only world she has ever known closes around her.
She falls in love and marries Thomas, who is not of the Faith, and is shunned by the entire community. They journey to California to start a new life farming melons, but Thomas dies in a tragic accident and the farm fails. A widow without means, Louisa makes her way to Golden, Colorado, where she opens a bakery and tearoom, and learns to survive in a man’s world. She finds women friends, becomes a suffragist, confronts social issues, and eventually rediscovers love. Louisa’s choices set in motion a transformation she never expected. But at what cost?
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| This was a very compelling read. Hannie's journey was an effective way to gain perspective on the history of families separated after the Civil War. Wingate's writing is authentic and draws the reader in. A bibliography for fiction is rare, but was i ...more | |
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I'm getting toward the end of The Book of Lost Friends and realized that each of us has a Book of Lost Friends (and Family.) The Pandemic has brought
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Hi, Deb - Like you, I'm such a novice at all this and am just putting one foot in front of the other... learning new things every day - it's a new wor
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