Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau.
To quote Rosellen Brown, the women in this haunting book are deeply and uniquely of their place, yet they speak (often wordlessly) of women\'s longings and satisfactions everywhere..
Here is a novel spanning eighty years -- years that bring factories and wars, store-bought cheese and city-trained teachers -- weaving the fates of the wives, mothers, and daughters in this remote corner of Austria.
Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love letter or a girl\'s careless delivery of two helpless relatives into Nazi hands, the town\'s balance is ever tested, and ever tender.
Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau
