Haven's wake /Ladette Randolph.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Flyover fiction .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; July 10, 2009; July 6, 2009; July 7, 2009; July 8, 2009; July 9, 2009.
Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsa's voice on her estranged son's answering machine: "Your father's dead. You'll probably want to come home." When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of this Mennonite family, the threads holding them together are suddenly drawn taut, silent.
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Mennonites--Nebraska--Fiction. Family secrets--Fiction. Christian fiction. Domestic fiction. Family secrets. Mennonites--Nebraska.