Description
Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family's three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fianc to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget.
Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the power of the vows we make to others, and, more binding, those we make to ourselves. Evoking the hardship, spring-fed beauty, and the complexities of community in the rural Midwest, this beautifully observed novel leads us to question our ideas about motherhood, faith, and the debts we owe.
Author: Nicole Mazzarella
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.44w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781557255082
ISBN10: 1557255083
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Christian | General
About the Author
Nicole Mazzarella grew up in Ohio and writes with sensitivity and precision about rural, Midwestern life. She teaches creative writing at Wheaton College and lives with her husband in Illinois. This is her first novel; it was originally selected by Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River, as a finalist for the Paraclete Press Fiction Award.