is a wonderful love story. The voice of this book is amazing. This is the story of a young girl who is raised in the Arizona territories and spends her married life in the area. The hero of this book is wonderful, the romance sweet and the heroine is strong, down to earth and innocent to love. She is very uneducated to start, but loves reading and educates herself with her reading. As she first begins to write(it's written in journal form), her writing and her language are very rough. She finds a library of books(deserted on the side of the trail in a wagon) which become her education and as she reads more, her language and her writing change. She is a very strong woman. This book is based on memoirs and journals of the author's family. As you read the book you realize that this all couldn't have happened to one woman. The details which she writes of every day life are amazing and make you realize how very hard life was in the frontier of our country as people settled where no one had been before and built from nothing. There are some wonderful scenes in the book and some very heartwrenching scenes. This was my choice for our book group, Books Without Borders, for the month of February. An enduring Love Story. We had a wonderful discussion about the indomitable spirit of the woman, Sarah and her struggles in this 20 year period. This is a great read!
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Sounds great. I'll add this one to my list.
I think you would really enjoy it!
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