Against the Season
A Novel| By: | Jane Rule |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781480429413 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781480429536 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A decades-spanning novel of sisterhood and family secrets from an ?extraordinary writer? (Katherine V. Forrest). ? Born lame, Amelia Larson lives in the house that has been in her family for generations. Now she has a decision to make: Should she honor the dying wish of her sister, Beatrice, to burn her diaries? There are sixty-nine in all: one journal for each year of Beatrice?s life since the age of six. ? Beginning in 1913 and traversing World War I and beyond, the diaries become a moving counterpoint to Amelia?s life as they unpeel layers of family history. As the past starts to impinge on the present, her relations?then and now?come to vivid life. ? Told from alternating points of view, Against the Season opens an illuminating window into small-town life. As the sins and secrets of a family are revealed through the sometimes-faulty lens of memory, it is a story about the seasons of life and the ties that bind us even beyond death. ?