Harvest of Stone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500903381)

Chicago-1889. Forced to witness his mother's agonizing death while quarantined in a one room tenement during a cholera epidemic, Gunnar Nilsson's world is turned upside-down. The experience begins his odyssey from a hardscrabble life in Chicago's notorious Swede Town slum to one of near isolation on a rundown farm in the bucolic hills of Black Earth, Wisconsin where he is indentured to a reclusive, emotionally scarred, civil war veteran, Tobias Wren, and his nearly blind wife, Emily. As their lives interweave, Gunn learns the secret that shrouds Emily in sadness - the same secret that goads Tobias to rage against God. In an emotional confrontation, they come together, return to the community and begin to thrive as a family when Gunn falls in love with Hattie Brown, the beautiful daughter of an abusive, mean-spirited horse breeder who threatens to kill him to keep his own secret.

Author: Steven Turk
ISBN-10: 1500903388
ISBN-13: 9781500903381
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2014
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d