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Almost-spinster schoolteacher Rosette Cordelia Ramsdell married Otis Churchill on a Michigan farm in 1857. Her real-life journal recounts two years of homesteading, history hints at the next six decades, and the novel explores the truth. We meet Rosette in 1888 as she revises the wedding-day page of her journal. In lush detail, in the voices of Rosette and others, the novel traces how we both choose and suffer our destiny, how hopes come to naught and sometimes rise from the wreckage. In a style reminiscent of Willa Cather, in a family saga that recalls the work of Marilynne Robinson, this novel brings us enduring themes of human life as Rosette and her friends and family make the most of the American pioneer life first detailed for most of us by Laura Ingalls Wilder. One reviewer says this story "makes an anonymous woman equal to the most celebrated hero of legend."

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Rosette
• Subtitle: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan
• Author: Cynthia Rinaman Marsch
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• EAN: 9780997112719
• ISBN: 0997112719
• ID: 11621930
• Publisher: Moraine's Edge Books
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 126 × 204 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2016

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