It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery.A journey you won't forget."- Houston Chronicle In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. She lives in Galveston."Compelling historical fiction. Ann was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. She was shortlisted for the Ohioana Book Award and was a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writer. In the United States, she won the Stephen Turner Award for New Fiction and the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction. When the Marshal is critically injured, Deborah and her husband’s best friend, Nels Anderson, are faced with life and death decisions that question their faith, humanity, and both of their futures.Īnn is also author of “The Promise,” set in Galveston prior to the 1900 storm, and “The Personal History of Rachel DuPree.” She was nominated for the UK’s Orange Prize, the Orange Award for New Writers, and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. When a desperate stranger who is pursued by a Federal Marshal shows up on her doorstep, it sets in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down. Isolated by the red-rock cliffs that surround the town, she and her neighbors live apart from the outside world, even regarded with suspicion by the Mormon faithful who question the depth of their belief. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried.ĭeborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns her living by tending orchards and making work gloves. with local author Ann Weisgarber and her new historical novel.īook synopsis: In the wilds of the Utah Territory, in 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright.
Galveston Bookshop will host a book signing on Saturday, July 13th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
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