“I am attracted to the idea that of the Heldin relatives and your major personality, Hilda, as she strikes via lifestyles and faces diversified questions and experiences.”
—Amy Gingerich, Editorial Director, The bring in Press
In the early 1900s, fourteen-year-old Hilda Heldin deals God a promise—she will supply her middle to Jesus if He heals her in poor health mom. yet God doesn't make deals.
Not lengthy after Hilda’s mom dies, her father, a Mennonite preacher and Minnesota farmer prays for a brand new spouse. frightened that his 3 kids want a mom, he pens a letter to Ukrainian schoolteacher Leah Loewen, a spinster he is aware. prior to lengthy, they're married—even as Hilda and her more youthful sister nonetheless fight with their grief. Hilda needs to meet the demanding situations of her Mennonite religion and lifestyles at the prairie, she unearths the energy to undergo climate catastrophes, international wars, delivery, and death—all whereas maturing into maturity and researching her actual identification.
Heldin tells an unforgettable story of a courageous woman’s compelling, coming-of-age trip as she attempts to come back to phrases with the religion that governs her life.