She's a first cousin of my mother Evelyn Reimer Doerksen. This story is fictionalized history of her mother's family bringing in the history of the "holdoman" church (a very strict sect of Mennonites). The family moves from Manitoba to Kansas and becomes entangled in the US conscientious objector laws, which were much more onerous than in Canada. Treatment was prison and torture.
She's a wonderful writer but this one's tops them all. That subtle forboding atmosphere suggested when the all the world seems bright, happy, and prosperous for the Mennonite farmers and business people. Oh yes, she is 86 years old and apparently getting better.
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