Plain Language: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Plain Language: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters. Now, on an isolated ranch in the Dust Bowl, they must adjust to the harsh ranching life and the dangers of an untamed landscape, as well as the differences between them. With an extended drought worsening the impact of the Depression in the West, neighbors turn against neighbors, and secrets from Alfred and Virginia's pasts come back to haunt them. But it is the arrival of Virginia's troubled brother on the ranch that sets off a chain of events with life-and-death consequences for them all. Plain Language is a beautifully told tale of a man and woman fighting against tremendous odds for their land -- and their love.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Plain Language: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: Barbara Wright: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Plain Language: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• The buckskin gelding pawed the ground and tossed his head back.