Calliope Marsh, a talkative and generous village woman, narrates these linked sketches of life in a little Midwestern town, written in 1908 with Portage, Wisconsin in mind. Church suppers, a debutante’s party, lonely old ladies, a big wind and Christmas good deeds show neighbours at their pettiest and their best.
Gentle small-town fiction that made Zona Gale’s name years before her Pulitzer-winning play Miss Lulu Bett. Download the free EPUB.