Title: Deeply affecting
Review: I was deeply affected by this coming-of-age novel set in the Montana prairie of 1910. The story is told by Paul Milliron who remembers one important year in his childhood, when he was 13. He and his two younger brothers have recently lost their mother. Their father, Oliver--in trying to deal with being father, mother and homesteader--responds to an ad in the Minneapolis newspaper for a housekeeper and hires widow Rose Lewellyn. She arrives on the train, unexpectedly bringing along her brother, Morris Morgan, who is later hired to teach in the one-room school. My favorite scenes are those of Morris responding with marvelous creativity to a job he had never considered, but seems to have been born to. Paul's crossover to adulthood relates to his discovery of a secret about Rose and Morris and how he handles it.
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