Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers by Mack, Donna B.

Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781482686661)

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Format: Paperback
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Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers by Mack, Donna B.

Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers

$12.95
Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers by Mack, Donna B.

Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers is a gritty, marrow-deep story of one of the families of Germans from Russia who settled on the American Prairie. When they are unwittingly ensnared in a web of calamity and ruin, only six-year-old Annie, possesses the innocent powers of insight, imagination and compassion that might save them from themselves. She perceives the desolate wind-flattened prairie as never ending death and rebirth, peopled with creatures of mythical dimensions. Here, the simple words and sentiments of common people belie the enormity and danger of human passions and their twisted and hidden source. Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers is a psychological, character-driven story in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Plains Song. It also recalls the terse, tense drama of O.E. Rolvaag's classic Giants in the Earth where the vast dome of ever-changing sky shifts with the narrative from dreamy solitude to churning conflict. The author, Donna Mack, is a National Endowment for the Arts award winner with a MFA from University of Alaska, Anchorage. At age 70 this is her first novel.

Author: Donna B. Mack
ISBN-10: 148268666X
ISBN-13: 9781482686661
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2013
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d
By Donna B. Mack
By Donna B. Mack
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A beekeeper's daughter, Donna B Mack was born in Harlan Iowa, one of five children. As a child she worked in her father's bee yards and sold honey door to door. Later she was a car hop and after years as a waitress, a school bus driver, and social worker Donna was awarded NEA endowment for her short fiction. She later earned a MFA at UAA Anchorage. For many years she and her sister owned a small import business in Alaska and upon retirement now Donna has completed her first novel: Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers. It tells the story of one family of Germans from Russia, a part of that late coming little known ethnic group who settled the prairies and plains of the Americas. Donna loves traveling and has visited more than 20 countries. She spends her time with her husband between Homer, Alaska and Pueblo, Colorado. Her short stories, reviews and poetry have appeared in several publications including Essence, The Alaskan Quarterly Review, The American Bee Journal and most recently Cirque. Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is her first novel.

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