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""Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. ... The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a story. ... The heart of the book i…
"It is a curse in this family that the women bear only daughters, if anything at all." So begins this elegy of the women of the Nebraska plains. This is the story of the Atkins family, who settle, farm, and raise three generations from the early years of this century. In partic…