Unsettled

Unsettled
Authors
Patricia Reis
Publisher
Sibylline Press
Size
2.32 MB
Lang
en
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In this lyrical historical fiction withalternating points of view, a repressed woman begins an ancestral quest throughthe prairies of Iowa, awakening family secrets and herself, while in the late1800s, a repressed ancestor, Tante Kate, creates those secrets.

As Van Reinhardt clears out her dead father's belongings, she comes acrosshints of an unsettling family history, along with a request penned by herfather prior to his death that sends her on a genealogical quest. Examining a1900 family portrait of her German immigrant ancestors, Van curiosity growsabout one of the children portrayed there.

In the 1870s,Kate is a German immigrant newly arrived in America with only her brother asfamily. Life changes for Kate when she and her brother split. When she returns,armed with a secret, nothing is the same, for her or her brother. Together theytry to forge a life working for farmers in southwestern Iowa and at Kate'surging, her brother takes the farmer's...