From the highly acclaimed author of The Outcast and The Alliance comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on.
When Ruth Neufeld’s husband and father-in-law are killed working for a
relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young
daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the
Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together
next steps.
Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband’s cousin, who
invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting
through fields of berries and memories of a marriage that was broken
long before her husband died, Ruth finds solace in the beauty of the
land and healing through hard work and budding friendship. She also
encounters the possibility of new love with Elam, whose gentle
encouragement awakens hopes and dreams she thought she’d lost forever.
But an unexpected twist threatens to unseat the happy ending Ruth is
about to write for herself. On the precipice of a fresh start and a new
marriage, Ruth must make an impossible decision: which path to choose if
her husband isn’t dead after all.