New York: Delacorte, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel begun by Olsen in the 1930s, but not completed and published until 1974 - her first novel, and second work of fiction - the story of a family trying to survive during the Depression, beginning in a mining town in Wyoming in the early 1920s. Author's note explaining how this had been thought lost and then fragments were found among her papers. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-440-091969.