TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scheibe,Amy
TI  - A fireproof home for the bride
SN  - 1250049679
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Young women
KW  - Minnesota
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N1  - "A novel"--Jacket; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "[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"--
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