Making It All Right

May Dixon has never met a problem she couldnt solve--signs of her tinkering are all over her late-1940s Indiana farm--but she never thought shed be inventing a whole new kind of family. Faced with losing her husband May pulls herself together and comes up with a plan. People think its crazy to shell peas with a clothes-wringer too she tells herself. But it works.Alive with the sensory detail of a mid-century farm household from the golden glow of home-canned peaches to the sweat of the tobacco harvest this evocative novel explores complex truths of family friendship community and the past. Making It All Right is a story of what can--and cant--be accomplished with ingenuity determination and love. A quiet masterpiece of domestic narrative . . . with dramatic tension from beginning to end. Breeden-Osts ear for dialog is uncanny her psychological sense deep.--James Alexander Thom author of Follow the RiverThe most beautiful book I have read in some time. A multi-layered examination of . . . the meaning of love and forgiveness. The characters are flawlessly written . . . intensely human.-Sallyann J. Murphey author of Bean Blossom Dreams