Sweet Fields Beyond

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A THOUGHT-PROVOKING TALE OF SURVIVAL MORAL RECKONING AND THE MAKING OF HOME IN A WILD LAND</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>THE YEAR IS 1837. When widow Louisa Evans with no belongings or purpose joins her sister and brother-in-law on a 700-mile arduous trek by wagon train from Pennsylvania she hopes for a fresh start. Their destination is the Black Hawk Purchase-a wild unsettled expanse along the Mississippi soon to be called Iowa.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>AND THE JOURNEY WEST IS ONLY THE BEGINNING ...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES Louisa and her brother-in-law Isaac must build a farm alone on virgin land-enduring backbreaking labor shared grief and impossible moral choices. Through her unflinching journal Louisa records each trial in a voice both lyrical and candid-a widow's quiet passage from invisibility toward self-possession.</span></p><p></p><p></p>