Two sisters, Mabel and Bertie, are living with their stepfather in the town of Juniper, Kentucky. Bertie is excited to graduate the 8th grade and looks to the future to marry her love, Wallace. Mabel is trying to get away from her awful stepfather without letting Bertie know and something goes wrong, the stepfather is found dead and Bertie feels so lost because her sister and Wallace both disappear and both are left without their sister.
The rest of the book goes back and forth between Bertie and Mabel through the years. Bertie sends all correspondence received from Mabel back to her and then finally just writes "deceased" on the envelope and sends it back to stop future communication.
As these two sisters fall away from each other, we are introduced to the next generation of women in this family. I do not want to give too much away, but I really liked how I was introduced to these remarkable women and the way they dealt with their struggles and how they overcame them as well.
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