The long-awaited sequel to the classic A Day No Pigs Would Die, this poignant and earthily poetic book reintroduces readers to Rob, the Shaker boy living on the hardscrabble farm in Vermont during the early year of the Depression, who is now in sole charge of his motley household,...
Thirteen-year-old Rob, having buried his father, Haven Peck, only two weeks before, begins to shoulder the hefty yoke of manhood, in charge of his work-worn mother and aunt, a cow, an ox, a few chickens, on a hardscrabble five-acre Vermont farm. Months back, knowing that he would...