![]() ![]() ![]() There was so much POV and time period switching. Well - the beginning was confusing as hell. I was worried since this is an Oprah book and she is a hit-or-miss. This was a random find at the library and I was in the mood for a mystery. And when Mathilde's husband, Carl, returns from the war, he finds his small daughter, Ruth, in Amanda's tenacious grip, and she will tell him nothing about the night his wife drowned. Within a year, though, her beloved sister Mathilde drowns under mysterious circumstances. ![]() Her shame sends her into a nervous breakdown, and she returns to the family farm. A few years later, as a nurse in Milwaukee, she is seduced by a dishonorable man. As a young woman, Amanda Starkey, a Lutheran farmer's daughter, had been firmly discouraged from an inappropriate marriage with a neighboring Catholic boy. Although there were telephones and motor cars and dance halls in the small towns of Wisconsin in those years, the townspeople remained rigid and forbidding. Drowning Ruth opens in 1919, on the heels of the influenza epidemic that followed the First World War. ![]()
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