Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel (although not her first book, preceded by poetry and essays) -the story of a working family from the rich Ohio farmlands of the 1850s to the rustbelt ruins of 2005 - "Rose Healy of Blanchardville, Ohio, child bootlegger, WWII veteran, devoted reader of Tolstoy, and heroic mother of ten, had the nerve to die before her youngest daughter could get home. Which, as Rose would say, was her own damn fault. Yet, when Stephanie returns after the funeral, restless and plagued by the same unease that drove her away thirty years earlier, she discovers that death is no object when two women need to talk" 250 pp. . ISBN: 9781620540152.