Searching for Nora by Wendy W. Swallow

Author:Wendy W. Swallow [Wendy Swallow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-73310-751-8
Publisher: Peavine Mountain Press
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT MORNING we pushed off again into the sea of grass. Jens asked to drive the team, so he sat on the wagon seat with me, telling me about the animals at their farm in Norway and how he hoped we might soon get cows and pigs here, in America. Birgitte, walking with her father, turned several times to glare at him. She didn’t like it when Jens talked to me about their life in Gudbrandsdalen.

As we trundled farther west, the prairie began to fill me with a mysterious weight, like a stone set gently on my chest. The emptiness, the crudeness of the life; I wondered if I would be able to bear it. In my America dream, I had always imagined a city life, not unlike my life in Kristiania. Snug apartments or little houses, with warm rugs on the floors and pianos in every parlor. Educated people, modern conveniences. I might have to work as a governess or companion, but it would be in gentle circumstances.

But there didn’t seem to be any evidence of a life like that out here.

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