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Also by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi:

Up the Hill to Home, May 2015
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Up the Hill to Home
Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

Apprentice House
May 2015
On Sale: April 28, 2015
478 pages
ISBN: 1627200398
EAN: 9781627200394
Kindle: B00S97XRF6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction Literary

Cherished only child of Charley and Emma Beck, she is the unlikely issue of an improbable union. Beloved wife of Ferd Voith, she is the happy mother of a tribe of nine, and newly expecting her tenth. It is the family of her earliest dreams. Seven forty-one, the house that Charley built on his little plot of farmland just outside of Washington City in the District of Columbia, is the only home she’s ever known. So vast before, the house seems to shrink with each new child, until Charley wonders that they’re not all tumbling out of windows. In a ritual established over so many babies, Lillie celebrates by having Ferd bring down her memory box, a carefully collected treasure of the lives of those she loves. She knows by heart every word of the letters, every entry of the diaries, every detail of the photographs, and she traces them again with the start of each new life, to instill a sense of place, of family, of history. Emma’s miracle, Ferd’s universe, the beating heart of the household: When Lillie is stricken in a fall, her memories tug at threads woven through a century as the fabric of the family frays around her. Charming, lyrical, and evocative, by turns funny and heartbreaking, Up the Hill to Home sketches an enduring portrait of four generations of the Miller/Beck/Voith clan against the backdrop of Washington, D.C., as the city itself grows from a dusty pre-Civil War cowtown to a national capital in the throes of the Great Depression.

Comments

10 comments posted.

Re: Up the Hill to Home

Characters that make me cry.
(Marissa Yip-Young 5:46am May 12, 2015)

My favorite are characters I love to hate
(Hope Clippinger 3:27pm May 12, 2015)

I still like Scarlett because she is strong and also spoiled.
(Leona Olson 10:23pm May 12, 2015)

anyone with a smart mouth
(MaryEllen Hanneman 3:08pm May 13, 2015)

What a interesting sounding story. And I thought that 2 children
could be a handful. Thanks for this opportunity.
(Nancy Luebke 3:02pm May 14, 2015)

I want to win this for my wife
(Thomas Collette 11:33pm May 14, 2015)

want it!
(Susan Gannon 8:41am May 15, 2015)

Cover looks like many of the lumber baron homes in Michigan.
(Richard Burr 11:32am May 15, 2015)

My favorite character is Fred Flintstone!!!!!! Funny
characters
(Renae Kelly 12:03pm May 15, 2015)

I love the Morrow family in Black Horse by Addison Kline I want
to be part of their family!
(Denise Austin 1:50pm May 15, 2015)