A Gathering of Days A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 : a Novel
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"This year, more than others, has been a lengthy gathering of days wherein we lived, we loved, were moved, learned how to accept." Born to the rigors of life on a small New Hampshire farm, thirteen-year-old Catherine Hill is keeping house for her widowed father and younger sister as she begins her journal in 1830, unaware that it is to be one of the most memorable times of her life. Her father's remarriage introduces a new mother and brother into her home; the plight of a runaway slave opens her eyes to injustice; the tragedy of early death brings first growing-up grief. And everyday life moves on as well: quilting, berrying, the great "breaking out" after the snowbound winter, sugaring in the spring, rivalries and romances. Joan Blos's moving novel captures the hardship as well as the tranquility of early American farm life and the sturdiness, the tenderness, of the people whose way of life it was. -- Dust jacket.
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