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, si.
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ISBN:080324357X
ISBN:9780803243576
ISBN:9780803245327
ISBN:0803245327
Physical Description:1 online resource remote
Publisher:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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Formatted Contents Note:
Title page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; July 10, 2009; July 6, 2009; July 7, 2009; July 8, 2009; July 9, 2009.
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