A Striving After Wind

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Annie Winston and her brothers have been surrounded by wealth and prestige all their lives as a part of the upper class NYC society. But as their mother says They don't know how to dream. When she dies their father seizes upon an opportunity to uproot his family and move them to a farm in the Mississippi Valey near Dubuque Iowa a place that is unlike anything they have ever imagined. A mysterious stranger Sonny is employed to assist them with this enormous undertaking.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>This family saga is written against the backdrop of the global turmoil of the last three years of the Vietnam War in the early 1970's causing the family to grapple with conflicting attitudes and ideologies. They live they work they love and they cry while learning the meaning of perseverance and loyalty while gaining a greater understanding of self-worth and decency. Like Annie says We have each planted a piece of ourselves in this place and the roots have grown much deeper than any of us expected.</span></p>