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A Mending at the Edge A Novel

Jane Kirkpatrick

So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it's a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community?

GenresGiesy, Emma Wagner -- Fiction.Women pioneers -- Fiction.Washington (State) -- Fiction.

397 pages

English edition · First published 2008 by WaterBrook Press · ISBN 9780739495452

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