The Practice House
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XD2ZWSP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"My Emotions Are Still Reeling - Just Fabulous" according to Booklover. Just finished Amazon First Book March 2017 "The Practice House by Laura McNeal".Been sitting here trying to decide how to review it without spoilers. First, I think that Laura McNeal is a very talented writer. She has taken a great cast of characters, set them in the Depression time, add. An interesting, but not particularly satisfying read. Robin O. Harris In "the Practice House," Lara McNeal draw on numerous historical touchstones: immigration from Ireland, The missionary endeavorsof the Church of the Latter Day Saints, the immigration experience in New York citiy, the draw of Western migration, the fixture of the Harvey Houses which feed. Walked away without a second thought K. Sweere Couldn't finish it. Just didn't care what happened to the characters.
Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house new teachers. In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. Just as she's settling into her strange new life, a storm forces unspoken thoughts to the surface that will forever alter the course of their lives. With no money and too much pride to turn back, she lives