Amy Scheibe

A witty tale of a stay agt home mom on the verge of insanity. She's constantly asked what she does all day. And she's beginning to question it as well.
Then a man in her husband's work force shows her pictures of her husband with (gasp) another woman!
Does being home all the time affect the way she perceives things, by jumping to the wrong conclusion or being short tempered? Or is it because she feels she doesn't get the support she needs at home or anytime to herself?
It's a fun beach read.… (meer)

This story takes place in the mid-1950s in Minnesota/North Dakota and is about a young girl about to graduate from high school who is expected by her family to get engaged immediately and marry a neighboring farm boy. Unfortunately, that boy turns out to be a budding member of the Ku Klux Klan (MN is my home state and I never knew the KKK was active here - unpleasant surprise), and many of the surrounding neighbors turn out to have the same beliefs. Also, the girl - Emmy - wants a career as a writer and struggles to subjugate her desires to that of her prospective husband. The author writes in an oddly inaccessible way, and it took me 10 days to read this book. Unless you're REALLY interested in that period of time, I wouldn't recommend it.… (meer)

I really loved this book. It is a novel about Emmaline Nelson a teenager growing up in small town North Dakota in the 1950's. It is a well written coming of age story in which she struggles to overcome a very restrictive mother to become a well rounded and assertive young lady. She learns about things like racism, anti Catholicism and a somewhat dark family history. She is a very sympathetic heroine and you can't help but hope that she makes the right decisions in her life. The characters are very well developed and realistic.… (meer)