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A Fireprroof Home for the Bride
Amy Scheibe
St. Martin's Press
March 2015
On Sale: March 10, 2015
Featuring: Emmeline Nelson; Birdie Nelson
ISBN: 1250049679
EAN: 9781250049674
Kindle: B00MSYXJHW
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Women's Fiction
Emmeline Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard,
cold rural Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking
times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom
practically predestined. Though it’s 1958, southern
Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the
horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the
ferment of the 1960’s, Emmy doesn’t see that she has any say
in her life, any choices at all. Only when Emmy’s fiancé shows his true colors and forces
himself on her does she find the courage to act—falling
instead for a forbidden Catholic boy, a boy whose family
seems warm and encouraging after the sere Nelson farm life.
Not only moving to town and breaking free from her
engagement but getting a job on the local newspaper begins
to open Emmy’s eyes. She discovers that the KKK is not only
active in the Midwest but that her family is involved, and
her sense of the firm rules she grew up under—and their
effect—changes completely. A FIREPROOF HOME FOR THE BRIDE has the charm of detail that
will drop readers into its time and place: the home
economics class lecture on cuts of meat, the group date to
the diner, the small-town movie theater popcorn for a penny.
It also has a love story—the wrong love giving way to the
right—and most of all the pull of a great main character
whose self-discovery sweeps the plot forward. The setting is
Kent Haruf, but the heroine is pure Annie Proulx.
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