Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he's come home. His friends are right there waiting for him--and so are his enemies.
In the face of tragedy and a world shaken by the Great Depression, Lanie and her younger siblings seek salvation and encouragement in faith, family, and their tight-knit community.
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award In The Homeplace, the stories of a family become the history of a people as Marilyn Nelson Waniek sketches the lives descended from her great-great-grandmother Diverne.
Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman, happy on the five-acre family homeplace in Fairhope, Arkansas, dreams of going to college and becoming a writer.
Rob’s devotion to his child isn’t the only thing that draws Cathie to him. Her attraction to the new owner of Homeplace is impossible to ignore.
We’ve enjoyed farming, gardening and nature. This story shares some of that with others. The pictures and story are all from a small midwest town where I raised my 6 children.