num_pages: 458
description: This novel won First Place in Fiction in 1989--League of Utah Writers. Based On Real Life Events. A woman of extraordinary beauty, thirty year-old Irene Kent fits comfortably into the role of wife and mother as defined by her culture. Suddenly widowed, she begins the painful journey of learning that her entire identity has been based on the love of a man. Struggling painfully with single life, she falls in love with a married man and her entire belief system is challenged. Irene's daughter Ellen watches her mother struggle, and observes and evaluates the culture and lives of her family and fellow townspeople. She grows into young womanhood critically examining time-honored beliefs versus her deep desire to forge a different life for herself as a woman. Mother-in-law to Irene and grandmother to Ellen, Addie Kent is a wise, kind, and strong widow, a woman of faith and endurance, her pioneer ethic still strong. She is the center of her families' lives.
language: English
title: Love, Sin & Survival
titlecomplete: Love, Sin & Survival
publisher: Agreka Tm Llc