Unsettled by Patricia Reis - 9781736795484

Name: Unsettled by Patricia Reis - 9781736795484
Brand: Sibylline Press

Sibylline Press

UnsettledA Novel\nAuthor(s): Patricia Reis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Sibylline Press, United States\nImprint: Sibylline Press\nISBN-13: 9781736795484, 978-1736795484\nSynopsis\nFamily Secrets. A genealogical quest takes Van back 100 years to the Iowa prairie in search of an ancestor no one has claimed. As Van Reinhardt clears out her fathers belongings, she comes across a request penned by her father prior to his death. Examining the family portrait of her German immigrant ancestors that he has left her, Vans curiosity grows about one of the children portrayed there. Meanwhile in the 1870s, Kate is a German immigrant newly arrived in America with only her brother as family. When she and her brother split, she eventually finds her way back to him, but with a secret. Van revisits the town and the farm of her ancestors to discover calamitous events in probate records, farm auction lists, asylum records and lurid obituaries, hinting at a history far more complex and tumultuous th.