Ratings
Rated: 3410 times. Average rating 4.95
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and World War II, Barefoot In The Stubble Fields is the coming of age story of Maggie Fahey, the youngest daughter of a struggling Iowa farmer, sent to live temporarily with a wealthy aunt and uncle in Sioux City following the death of her mother. When the childless couple refuses to give her back, Maggie finds herself on an emotional tightrope between her two families, never fully belonging to either. Thus begins her lifelong search for a place to call home. As the nation staggers through the grim days of the Depression, Maggie is shuttled between a life of privilege in the city and the poor Irish farming community of her birth. She grows up burdened with a sense of loss and rejection, a feeling intensified by the personal tragedies of the wartime years. But one final chance at love forces Maggie to choose between her fears and her dreams. From the drought fractured fields of northwestern Iowa in the 1930s to the wartime campuses of St. Mary?s College and the University of Notre Dame, Barefoot In The Stubble Fields chronicles a young girl?s precarious journey to womanhood during one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation?s history, a solitary struggle for survival that typifies the quiet courage of a generation.
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