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A Mending At The Edge (Change And Cherish Historical Series #3)
Kirkpatrick, Jane

A Mending At The Edge (Change And Cherish Historical Series #3)

WaterBrook Press (Apr 15, 2008)
9781578569793
| Paperback
416 pages | 132 x 201 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3561.I712 .M46 2008
LC Control No. 2007041707

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Historical Fiction
  • Washington (State)
  • Western Stories
  • Women Pioneers
  • Women Pioneers/ Fiction

Plot

“Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most.”So begins this story of one woman’s restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman’s desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it’s a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community?