The Last Letter: The Letter Series, Volume 1, by Kathleen Shoop
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The Last Letter: The Letter Series, Volume 1, by Kathleen Shoop
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Katherine wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't found the letter....
In the summer of 1905, Katherine Arthur's mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband, Frank, it had been a world of opportunity. Dreaming, lazy Frank. But it was a society of uncertainty - a domain of natural disasters, temptation, hatred, even death.
Ten-year-old Katherine had loved her mother fiercely, put her trust in her completely, but when there was no other choice, and Jeanie resorted to extreme measures on the prairie to save her family, she tore Katherine's world apart. Now, 17 years later, and far from the homestead, Katherine has found the truth - she has discovered the last letter. After years of anger, can Katherine find it in her heart to understand why her mother made the decisions that changed them all? Can she forgive and finally begin to heal before it's too late?
The Last Letter: The Letter Series, Volume 1, by Kathleen Shoop- Amazon Sales Rank: #142314 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-03-20
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 769 minutes
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144 of 149 people found the following review helpful. A heartwrenching story - I couldn't put it down! By lkm There were so many things to love about this book -- but the most compelling for me was depiction of the complexities and tragic misunderstandings of a relationship between a mother and her daughter. As the story opens we see Katherine, a 26 year old woman who is forced to take in her dying and estranged mother Jeannie. The source of Katherines bitterness and resentment toward her mother is unfolded in a parallel story line set in the 1800's, when Katherine was just a young girl who set off with her family as they attempted to make a new life on the prairie. But their little family was wholly unprepared for what prairie life had in store for them -- for the utter devastation it would bring to their family. Without divulging too much, I came to see Jeannie as a true heroine who, unbeknownst to her children, did the absolute best she could under utterly terrible circumstances. The adult Katherine could not begin to grasp the untenable situation her mother was left in - she knew only that the women whom she once adored, the most tender, loving and selfless person she knew - her playmate, her confidante, her protector and defender - her whole world, had turned her back on her. Katherine could not know the calamities that reduced the strong and capable Jeannie, with such limitless hopes and the noblest intentions for her family, to a walking wasteland. Katherine could not know that she had been purposely shielded from a father and husband deserving of neither title. They were children, mercifully kept unaware of the secrets that Jeannie hid away so deeply, and the cost of that protection was the love of her children. Kathleen has deftly demonstrated that the emotions, personal dilemmas and the heartbreaking decisions of a women on the prairie in the early 1800s are equally relevant today. With vivid detail she takes the reader to a world that no longer exists, demonstrates that although it may have been a simpler time, it was, in enumerable ways, an extremely difficult time for a women to ensure the well being of her children against extreme adversity. It is a gripping story you are sure to love.
48 of 51 people found the following review helpful. A definite read for historical fiction fans! By Gina Hurteau Shoen I was given a copy of this book for review. At first I thought I would be put off by the flashback chapters of the book, but soon I was taken in! I took the book on my long weekend and found myself reading more of the weekend than anythind else.It reads like a fact based account of the terrible price that pioneers paid to settle the land in the west. I was drawn in by the authors great descriptions of life on the prairie, dugouts and the weather. The book was well written overall.I was however a little disappointed with the ending, because it seemed to skip over everything I wanted to know. It left me hanging with more unanswered questions than answered ones, which is why I gave it a three star rating rather than a four.I was also a little put off by the fact that every conceivable ill that could befall someone on the prairie did happen to the main character. It seemed like all she did was suffer and that was it, she never had an ounce of happiness in the book. In fact, if I knew someone like her, I'd avoid them whenever possible. We kept being reminded that she'd kill for her children, then she sort of gives them away, it really made no sense to me. For a character who was so well written that I BELIEVED she was a strong willed, independent woman who was willing to take on the prairie to start her life over again, I was sorely disappointed with how the author ended her story. It was almost as if the author was tired of writing and ended the book just to have it over with, rather than giving the cast of characters any real closure.Great book, terrible ending. Definitely worth the read if you are a historical fiction fan or historical weather buff.
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful. As though you were there By Curt Coulter How fascinating!! Inspired by letters written by her great grandmother, Kathleen Shoop has crafted a fictional family tale of secrecy, deceit and torn relations against a stunningly accurate account of life on the prairie before and after the tragic "School Children's Blizzard" of 1888. Much like the main character in the story, Jeanie Arthur, Ms. Shoop's vivid descriptions tear the reader from the comfort of a civilized home and drop them, unprepared, in the midst of crude, primitive and unfamiliar terrain, a witness to the shocking, brutal and often disgusting realities equated with survival on the prairie in the 1800s. Lovers of history will relish the detail with which The Last Letter is penned. Those with yellowed family letters of their own, tucked away in dusty attic chests, will be moved by Jeanie's words to re-read their own family treasures, and perhaps even to preserve and honor them as Ms. Shoop has done in the compilation, My Dearest Frank, a must-have compliment to The Last Letter. And for every parent who makes gutwrenching decisions in the name of love, The Last Letter is a reminder that we should teach our children forgiveness because there is always some act, some discovered secret our children will struggle to forgive.
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