New York: SOHO Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Montana-born author. Follows the stories of two sisters' lives during and after World War II in which one lost a husband, the other a fiance - feminists before the word was created, because they had to be to survive. Cover praise from William Kittredge who called this novel "as beautiful and stark as the high, short grass plains where it all happens." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-939149605.