Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan

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Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan

Why did she edit her wedding-day journal?

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."

Note that the Kindle version includes only the text of the novel. The paperback version includes 24 charcoal illustrations and highlights in a font created from Rosette's own handwriting.

Now available: a companion short story - "Blizzard: A Story of Dakota Territory."

Country	USA
Author	Cindy Rinaman Marsch
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780997112702
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct	0
Label	Moraine's Edge Books
Manufacturer	Moraine's Edge Books
NumberOfPages	238
PublicationDate	2016-01-22
Publisher	Moraine's Edge Books
ReleaseDate	2016-01-22
Studio	Moraine's Edge Books

Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan

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