Selina Peake arrives as the schoolteacher in High Prairie, a stubbornly Dutch farming district southwest of Chicago, and marries into a life of mud, cabbages and hard work. Widowed, she drives her own produce to the city market and raises her son Dirk, nicknamed So Big, hoping he will value beauty over money.
Winner of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and a moving study of what a life well spent really looks like. Download the free EPUB.