{"product_id":"9781736795484","title":"Unsettled","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;mso-margin-bottom-alt:\n8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this lyrical historical fiction with\nalternating points of view, a repressed woman begins an ancestral quest through\nthe prairies of Iowa, awakening family secrets and herself, while in the late\n1800s, a repressed ancestor, Tante Kate, creates those secrets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"\u003eAs Van Reinhardt clears out her dead father’s belongings, she comes across\nhints of an unsettling family history, along with a request penned by her\nfather prior to his death that sends her on a genealogical quest. Examining a\n1900 family portrait of her German immigrant ancestors, Van curiosity grows\nabout one of the children portrayed there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eIn the 1870s,\nKate is a German immigrant newly arrived in America with only her brother as\nfamily. Life changes for Kate when she and her brother split. When she returns,\narmed with a secret, nothing is the same, for her or her brother. Together they\ntry to forge a life working for farmers in southwestern Iowa and at Kate’s\nurging, her brother takes the farmer’s daughter as his wife. And as that family\ngrows, Kate becomes Tante Kate, isolated and separate from the rest of the\nfamily—almost a servant—not even appearing in the family portrait. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eVan revisits\nthe town and the farm of her ancestors to discover calamitous events in probate\nrecords, farm auction lists, asylum records and lurid obituaries, hinting at a\nhistory far more complex and tumultuous than she had expected. But the mystery\nremains, until she chances upon a small book, sized for a pocket—Tante Kate’s\nsecret diary—that provides the missing piece. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eVan revisits\nthe town and the farm of her ancestors to discover calamitous events in probate\nrecords, farm auction lists, asylum records and lurid obituaries, hinting at a\nhistory far more complex and tumultuous than she had expected. But the mystery\nremains, until she chances upon a small book, sized for a pocket—Tante Kate’s\nsecret diary—that provides the missing piece. Unsettled delivers what DNA\nanalysis and Ancestry.com cannot. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eUsing memory,\nimagination and heart, Van constructs her ancestral narrative, uncovers the\nsecrets that have kept her from the truth, mending the tears in her family\nstory and her own life.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia Reis","offers":[{"title":"Sibylline Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-20","offer_id":44230082855167,"sku":"9781736795484","price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4d93f456-6d4d-4388-948b-e7d41355b0dd.jpg?v=1693003390","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781736795484","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}