Haven's Wake

By Ladette Randolph

Book Overview

Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose plots of organic crops trace a modest patchwork among the vast fields of soybeans and corn, trouble arrives from a different quarter in the form of Elsa's voice on her estranged son's answering machine: "Your father's dead. You'll probably want to come home."

When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of this Mennonite family, the threads holding them together are suddenly drawn taut, singing with the tensions of a lifetime's worth of love and faith, betrayal and shame. Through the competing voices of those gathered for Haven Grebel's funeral, acts of loyalty and failures, long-suppressed resentments and a tragic secret are brought to light, expressing a larger, complex truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080324357X
• ISBN13: 9780803243576
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"