f-Holes of MELANCHOLIA

Katya Sadilov is a former child prodigy violinist turned farmwife--a woman plonked into the wrong life in rural Saskatchewan. Her new husband George must instruct her in the most basic domestic skills--how to cook work the stove and milk the cow. Survival in this harsh world depends on know-how.Long before medical people coined the term Bipolar Katyas mania followed by melancholia tortures her and rankles her husband. The tight-minded citizens in town shun her. The harsh prairie landscape deflates her. Loki a barnyard crow is her sole confidant. Her only advocate is her father Vasili. But music resonates brilliantly from the f-holes of Katyas violin. Can she trust that the strength of songs can overcome her plight and crippled mind?This story explores a fathers love for his daughter and the trials he suffers to protect her. The family copes with hardship tragedy and the diatonic scale of mental collapse. Still the music lingers. It fills Katyas days embracing and hypnotic and whispers through the wheat stalks in sweet sibylline tones.