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Fireproof Home for the Bride
Fireproof Home for the Bride | Amy Scheibe
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Emmaline Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold rural Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it's 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time bubble between a world war and the ferment of the 1960's, Emmy doesn't see that she has any say in her life, any choices at all. Only when Emmy's fiance shows his true colors and forces himself on her does she find the courage to act falling instead for a forbidden Catholic boy, a boy whose family seems warm and encouraging after the sere Nelson farm life. Not only moving to town and breaking free from her engagement but getting a job on the local newspaper begins to open Emmy's eyes. She discovers that the KKK is not only active in the Midwest but that her family is involved, and her sense of the firm rules she grew up under and their effect changes completely. Amy Scheibe's A FIREPROOF HOME FOR THE BRIDE has the charm of detail that will drop readers into its time and place: the home economics class lecture on cuts of meat, the group date to the diner, the small-town movie theater popcorn for a penny. It also has a love story the wrong love giving way to the right and most of all the pull of a great main character whose self-discovery sweeps the plot forward."
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Wow! The world outside your childhood home is sooo much more than we‘re ever lead to believe; for both good and evil. Quite the compelling read #HighlyRecommended

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I'm a little backed up on my book-of-the-day/what-to-read calendar, but I always make sure I go through the days I missed. This book made it to the #tbr; we'll see.

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#FunFridayPhoto: Cold climate reads!

Burial Rites is a favorite; the words feel cold + gray and the writing sets such an atmospheric + lovely scene. I love both the Icelandic setting + the female lead, Agnes. 👍🏻

A Fireproof Home for the Bride is set in the Midwestern US; a coming-of-age story with a great female lead. Emmy questions the role of women in 1950's US. There is secrecy, betrayal, racism + forbidden love. 👍🏻

Have you read these?

susanw Burial Rites, good one! 8y
Jillsandypants I haven't read either of these but I am intrigued! 8y
Sue Burial Rites ❤️❤️❤️ 8y
AmyG Agreed...Burial Rites was very good. 8y
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