Longing to escape from her small Michigan town, sixteen-year-old Eve, an aspiring actress, is forced to confront both her family's and her own expectations when her twin sister announces her pregnancy.
The Campbell family has watched their friends and neighbors move across the Straits of Mackinac to a new island home on Mackinac Island, but they choose to stay behind in hope that the American Revolution will soon end.
On the Michigan frontier, while the adults disagree over whether there are enough settlers yet to build a church, a young girl tries to recall what church is all about.
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Michigan, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
"After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living among the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild--her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines is the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love."--back cover.
When Saul is assigned to teach a remedial writing course, a troubled student develops an odd fixation on him and and his wife, Patsy, leading Saul to question everything about his life.
