![]() ![]() She keeps her friendship with the girls secret Ray, whose brother was killed at Pearl Harbor, displays no fondness for the Japanese who work his farm. Young, enthusiastic, and passionate about butterfly hunting, the sisters introduce Olivia to the thriving, emotionally rich life of the camp. During one of them she meets Rose and Lorelei Umahara, Japanese-Americans from California who have been evacuated to confinement in Colorado. Precluded from contributing anything useful to the running of the farm, whose harvests are cultivated in part by labor from the local internment camp, Olivia takes long solitary walks. Olivia’s first days on the isolated farm are awkward, and Ray, a shy, reticent man of good intentions, isn’t very adept at small talk. ![]() With the help of a local church, her father arranges her marriage to Ray Singleton, a beet farmer in faraway La Junta. In wartime Denver, Olivia Dunne becomes pregnant after a one-night stand with a departing American soldier. ![]() ![]() A YA author’s nicely written adult debut novel blends historical richness and a fine sense of place to tell the story of a woman’s developing love for her husband-and for his Colorado farmland-over the course of six months in 1944. ![]()
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