Two women in 1897 Michigan confront past loves, broken engagements, and faith amid immigrant memories and personal revelations.
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Two women in 1897 Michigan confront past loves, broken engagements, and faith amid immigrant memories and personal revelations.
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-three-year-old Anna ...
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Centers on past true love and broken engagement with emotional focus.
Violent storm mentioned as stirring memories; no graphic details.
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Seminary student and themes of faith, memoir, and personal reflection.
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Immigrant settlement story in Michigan wilderness.
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Broken engagement and childhood nightmare referenced.
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