02537cam a2200325 4500 1039837685 TxAuBib 20231111120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781947305526 1947305522 B0BB86NL8F Amazon 3864574d-fffd-4d02-9bf7-e82a183353d8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9193110 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hanigan Kotz, Ann. The Journey of Karoline Olsen [Bridges eBook]. Bookpress Publishing, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 677kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>When her husband, Kristoffer, dies from a burst appendix in Iowa in 1905, middle-aged Karoline Olsen, mother of six, must make the 145-mile trip from Cedar Falls to Soldier by horse-drawn wagon to bring his body home. With the corpse on fast-melting ice, Karoline struggles to make good time across the rolling prairie during an exceptionally hot summer, recalling the story of their rocky marriage that brought them from Norway to the New World. The young couple, ambitious and naïve, arrive in the United States in 1884 with hopes of establishing a farm among other Norwegian immigrants, but are met instead with a constant battle against disease, famine, and poverty. A chronicle of the Olsens' fight to survive in the undeveloped Midwest, to preserve tradition in a new context, and to protect their family from the ravages of pioneer living, The Journey of Karoline Olsen is the tale of a woman and a wife building the American Dream out of nothing but the dirt on which she stands.</p> <p>Ann Hanigan Kotz's debut novel of love, loss, and heartache is based on her own family's heritage, traced back to its roots and re-imagined through a fiction akin to Faulkner.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-11-09 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3864574d-fffd-4d02-9bf7-e82a183353d8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3864574d-fffd-4d02-9bf7-e82a183353d8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3864574d-fffd-4d02-9bf7-e82a183353d8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)