Black Dirt Bright Stars

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Black Dirt Bright Stars</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Will Weaver continues the Haugen family saga begun in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Power & Light</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> carrying the story into the rugged Midwest of the 1940s. Shaken by loss injustice and the destruction of their farm the four Haugen siblings must find new ways to survive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At the heart of the struggle is Jenny the youngest who discovers both opportunity and harsh truths while working at a county courthouse. Determined calculating and fiercely loyal to her family she grows into a leader who refuses to be underestimated. When a chance at revenge goes horribly wrong Jenny binds her siblings to silence with a vow that will shadow them for decades. Rising from ruin to prosperity the Haugens build a new legacy-yet at the height of their success the buried secret threatens to undo everything they have built.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Weaver's novel explores not only the cost of ambition and survival but also the heavy burden of family loyalty when silence becomes its own kind of betrayal.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Black Dirt Bright Stars</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Weaver firmly establishes himself as the essential writer of prairie and pioneer literature. Weaver leaves no open wound unexamined or family bond escaped.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Nicole Helget <em>Stillwater</em> and <em>The</em> <em>End of the Wild</em> a <em>New York Times</em> Editor's Choice.</strong></p>