Whoa Nelly!

<p><strong>She went looking for Laura. She found herself.</strong></p><p>Lonely librarian Nelly sets out to walk in Laura Ingalls Wilder's footsteps-only to find that the prairie isn't as romantic as she imagined. As she confronts the darker legacies of the <em>Little House</em> series-racism revisionist nostalgia and the shadowy influence of Rose Wilder Lane-Nelly must reckon with her own buried truths.</p><p>Along the way there's a clever slow-burn romance with a modern-day Almanzo a rivalry with a would-be Laura and a blizzard that will test everything Nelly thought she knew about courage and care. By the time she boards the train home Nelly has rescued more than just a child in danger-she's reclaimed her own story.</p><p><em>Whoa Nelly! A Love Story (with Footnotes)</em> is a sharp soulful heroine's journey for the literary misfits the daughters of difficult mothers and anyone who ever found solace in a well-worn paperback.</p>