God's Acres

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In God's Acres six-years-old Bud tells the story set in the 1950's of his family's relocation from St. Joseph Missouri to a small farm just outside of town. The twelve-acre homestead represents the idyllic life for Bud's mother the story's central figure- a woman driven by unwavering religious beliefs and a rigid work ethic- but it turns out to be the source of much heartache. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><span></span>With an endearing earnestness and bits of laugh-out-loud humor Bud intertwines signal developments in the lives of his family members with key world events-all of which seems to be of equal importance from his perspective as a child. At the start of each chapter an adult Bud speaks from the present closing the circle on a complex tale of family relationships.</span></p>