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The Good Divide

“This is the book I was waiting to read.” —Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

In the lush countryside of Wisconsin, Jean Krenshaw is the ideal 1960’s dairy farm wife. She cooks, sews, raises children, and plans an annual July 4th party for friends and neighbors. But when her brother-in-law Tommy, who lives next door, marries leery newcomer Liz, Jean is forced to confront a ten-year-old family secret involving the unresolved death of a young woman.

With stark and swift prose, The Good Divide explores one woman’s tortured inner world, and the painful choices that have divided her life, both past and present, forever.

“The Good Divide surprises with the depth of... heartache, the intensity of the torments and jealousies that its characters succumb to, or survive.” —Caitlin Horrocks, author of This is Not Your City

“VanBaale serves up romance, deception, and a final, surprising retribution. The backdrop is a Wisconsin dairy farm, but the subject is the wounded recesses of the human heart.” —Pamela Carter Joern, author of In the Reach and The Floor of the Sky

“With gentle echoes of Richard Yates and Sherwood Anderson, The Good Divide... conveys the chaos and complications of domesticity — [it] is sure to make your heart simultaneously swell and splinter.” —Mathieu Cailler, author of Loss Angeles

“VanBaale masterfully captures that crazy mystical spirit of farm folklore. Dark and delicious reading for those of us who love best the characters who’ve earned their baggage.” —Jennifer Wilson, author of Running Away to Home

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 202
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781944850005
  • Genres
  • fiction, novels
  • Release date
  • 2016