TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simar,Candace
TI  - Shelterbelts: a novel 
SN  - 9780878398171
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - St. Cloud, Minnesota
PB  - North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Minnesota
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Scandinavian Americans
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Veterans
KW  - United States
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Tia Fiskum, the old maid of Tolga Township, yearns to retain her hold on the family farm after her shell-shocked brother returns from World War II. The neighbor she hopes to marry chooses a town girl for his new wife.The Potato King listens to the radio preacher and prays for a miracle. Eddy Root fears a return to the asylum. A German war bride struggles to find acceptance in this tight-knit Scandinavian community. Woven throughout is the man who walks lizards, a grieving father, a disillusioned pastor, and the neighborhood gossipmonger. Shelterbelts chronicles the life of a community struggling to return to normal after war. This is a story true to history of those difficult times while rich in the complications of the human spirit"--Page 4 of cover
ER  -