{"product_id":"rosette-a-novel-of-pioneer-michigan-paperback","title":"Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCindy Rinaman Marsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBetsy Marsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eBetsy Marsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost-spinster schoolteacher Rosette Cordelia Ramsdell married Otis Churchill on a Michigan farm in 1857. Her real-life journal recounts two years of homesteading, history hints at the next six decades, and the novel explores the truth. We meet Rosette in 1888 as she revises the wedding-day page of her journal. In lush detail, in the voices of Rosette and others, \u003cstrong\u003ethe novel traces how we both choose and suffer our destiny, how hopes come to naught and sometimes rise from the wreckage.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a style reminiscent of \u003cstrong\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/strong\u003e, in a family saga that recalls the work of \u003cstrong\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/strong\u003e, this novel brings us enduring themes of human life as Rosette and her friends and family make the most of the American pioneer life first detailed for most of us by \u003cstrong\u003eLaura Ingalls Wilder\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach narrator \u003c\/strong\u003e- Rosette, her brother Solomon, her mother Sally, her husband Otis, and briefly their son DeWitt - \u003cstrong\u003eoffers his or her own perspective on the events, giving insight into themselves as well as the other characters. \u003c\/strong\u003eRosette tells her mother her dreams, and Sally discerns meaning her daughter does not see. Otis reveals his solitary and ambitious character, and Solomon is his foil - these two pursue life and love quite differently. DeWitt speaks in his own middle age of his western frontier homesteading, combining the characters of his parents while being at the same time his own man. \u003cstrong\u003eThe novel closes with an elderly Rosette reflecting on the stream of the life she envisioned in the journal of her twenties - what might have been, what was lost, and what might yet be.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith authentic historical detail and modern insight, this novel conveys hopes and heartaches of our own world in a setting of pioneer challenges with the weather, great physical effort, and limited resources, as well as pioneer advantages of fulfilling success in one's own efforts and a close-knit community of neighbors visiting one another's farms and supplying one another's needs every day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rousing presidential election season, vigil at a neighbor's deathbed and preparation for burial, family and friends building a honeymoon sleigh, and community sledding, dances, an apple-paring bee, and a spell-down at the local school - all of these are recorded in the twenty months of Rosette's journal.\u003c\/strong\u003e The novel opens up these experiences for the modern reader, carrying us into Rosette's world and back into our own hearts. \u003cstrong\u003eRosette will linger with us. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"I would almost call this \u003cstrong\u003ean epic of the heartland, a novel that makes the small sacrifices of an anonymous woman equal to the most celebrated hero of legend.\u003c\/strong\u003e\" - Joshua Grasso, Department of English, East Central University\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRosette\u003c\/em\u003e is a seamless narrative....\u003c\/strong\u003e  A]llow yourself time to find the rhythm of the novel's phrasing. The 1850s were a more formal time, in manners and speech.\u003cstrong\u003e Be caught up in Rosette's life\u003c\/strong\u003e as I was. As a student of history, I waited for the small mistake of fact. I found none. You may use this novel as a window into pre-Civil War rural Michigan.\" - Karen Charbonneau, author of \u003cem\u003eMarble Creek\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wolf's Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eHer use of language is superb\u003c\/strong\u003e, echoing the phraseology of the time without sounding stagey, which makes the diary extracts blend seamlessly with Marsch's own text.\" - Debbie Young, Commissioning Editor and UK Ambassador, The Alliance of Independent Authors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54727037190435,"sku":"9780997112719","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/4836\/2275\/files\/N1l4ZzFUbzNrM3ZrTUtmTWlYdWtLUT09.webp?v=1770783580","url":"https:\/\/chaptersafterdarkbookstore.com\/products\/rosette-a-novel-of-pioneer-michigan-paperback","provider":"Chapters After Dark Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}