Description

Fervent Charity continues the story of the friendship of five women who have nothing in common but the ground they walk on and the vicissitudes of postfrontier prairie life

Lena a young mother living on the edge of heartbreak Her sisterinlaw Mary more beautiful than loved Alvinia midwife to the county and mother of ten Gustie and Jordis trying to make a home together but finding their place on either the reservation or in Charity precarious

The women come together in the face of natural hardshipschildbirth disastrous weather and diseaseand the unnatural malevolence of people who mean them harm In the end they find themselves bound by a secret none of them could have predicted

Contains mature themes