Gerhardt's Children

An Extraordinary Family Saga About A Fiercely German Catholic Clan Growing Up In Midwestern America.Epic In Scope And Emotional Appeal, It Is A Story Of Angry Sons And Rebellious Daughters, Hapless Mates And Lovers, Trapped In Hopeless Entanglements Of Need And Resentment; Of A Vibrantly Alive Young Woman Dying Of Cancer And An Emotionally Ravaged Young Man Struggling To Be Reborn; Of A Plainly Human Hunger For Love At The Mercy Iron Traditions That Bend Only In Madness."A Superb Novelist Presents A Book Difficult To Overpraise."-Publishers Weekly"Brilliant And Absorbing...Mundis Has Created The Living Organism Of An American Family."-The Pittsburgh Press