Review: A Novella that makes you cry?!?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
I bawled through a huge section of this book - which is interesting to me because as a short (barely over 100 page) novella - it would normally take me 100 pages to just get 'acquainted' with the key characters enough to care for them that much.  This was immediate.  I connected with the characters immediately and though I've never faced the pain of losing a spouse or parent, it was easy to identify with each character and their unique experiences of loss.  It was also easy to get Abby's take on the situation.  She felt loss in a completely different way - she wanted so much for herself what the deceased mother had so easily given to her, yet sadness that the family had to endure so much pain.I haven't read a book from the prairie in a loooong time.  I enjoyed both the simplicities and the complexities of their lives.  So different from how we live today!  That was too small a dose for me - absolutely wonderful - but now I am craving more!  Very definitely five stars!!