Four years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Thousand Acres", and two years after her hilarious novel of academe, "Moo", the brilliantly protean Jane Smiley once again demonstrates the variety and range of her talent. In her new book Smiley gives readers the wonderfully observed memoirs of a woman who marries an abolitionist from New England and with him settles in Kansas in the fateful year of 1855 to help ensure that the territory will enter the Union as a free state.
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Four years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Thousand Acres", and two years after her hilarious novel of academe, "Moo", the brilliantly protean Jane Smiley once again demonstrates the variety and range of her talent. In her new book Smiley gives readers the wonderfully observed memoirs of a woman who marries an abolitionist from New England and with him settles in Kansas in the fateful year of 1855 to help ensure that the territory will enter the Union as a free state.
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It started with promise, but seemed to go nowhere. Too wordy, not enough action to keep my interest. I didn't finish it. I've not read any of the author's other works -- perhaps this was not the best work to start with?
