Evie Yoder Miller has created a story that follows a community and its families brought together and pulled apart by the murder of a small child. For fifty years the effects on the people involved are told in multiple character voices against a background of pioneer movement west and the Amish church at the time. The event was real but the next 50 years to the real ending are told in a way that puts you inside the lives of those affected.If you enjoy historical fiction about American in the early 1800's you will want to find this book published in 2003.
