In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night .
But no matter the risks, it\'s a life that she alone controls..
As she carries on toward one unknown after another, her life becomes a fulfilling, sometimes dangerous, and exhilarating adventure.
With the Depression taking its toll, Del must gather her strength and faith.
But as they move forward together under desperate circumstances, even the closest of bonds threatens to break.
A nomadic single mother, Louisa teaches Del the ways of the boxcars and promises to help her reach a migrant enclave where Del can learn the skills she\'ll need to survive.
Rumbling across America, Del is soon drawn into a transient community among outcasts--and finds a special friend in Louisa Trout.
With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails.
A coal train is rolling through the valley.
Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she\'s known.
Until her husband\'s infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point.
Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place.
In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night
