A fireproof home for the bride /
Scheibe, Amy,
A fireproof home for the bride / Fire-proof home for the bride Amy Scheibe. - First edition. - x, 371 pages : maps ; 25 cm
"A novel"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
"[Emmaline] 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 1960s, 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 Nelson farm life"--
1250049679 $26.99 9781250049674 $26.99 9781250070869
2014035531
Family secrets--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Minnesota--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
North Dakota--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
A fireproof home for the bride / Fire-proof home for the bride Amy Scheibe. - First edition. - x, 371 pages : maps ; 25 cm
"A novel"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
"[Emmaline] 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 1960s, 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 Nelson farm life"--
1250049679 $26.99 9781250049674 $26.99 9781250070869
2014035531
Family secrets--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Minnesota--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
North Dakota--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.