Review: Learning to give and to receive
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
The author takes us on a trip from California to Minnesota as a young woman answers an online ad for a farm job when she has never even been on a farm!  The terrain is totally different from what she has known.  The sky is broad and daunting.  The farm is beyond what she had imagined.  At the end of a long an tortuous journey, she learns that the farm, its crops, its animals, its operation are under the direction of a young man and his younger sister.  Their parents were killed together and the siblings vow to make a go of the farm in honor of those parents.  The young man is quiet and brooding and seems to be unaware that the woman who has answered his ad for a farm hand is capable of doing anything at all.  His sister welcomes the presence of another woman  and the help which will release her to study for her college classes and have a life with her friends.  So, the question the reader encounters involves how will these three young people make a go of the farm.  Can the young Californian learn the ways of the farm and how to handle the animals and other duties?  Can the young man get past his moodiness and accept help?  Can the sister make a life on both fronts?  Can you guess?  Read this and see.