Book Discussion at Beatrice Public Library

Beatrice Public Library Book Discussion

Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 7 pm
"Mortgage Your Heart" by Sophus Keith Winther
​Book Discussion Leader: Glaura Falk, Granddaughter of a Danish homsteader

"Mortgage Your Heart" continues the story of rent-farmers Peter and Meta Grimsen & their six sons begun in "Take All to Nebraska."  But the central character in the novel is Hans, who is fifteen when the story begins and 24 at the end.  The book contains many depictions of farm work: 18 hour wheat harvesting days in the July heat; picking sharp stalks of milkweed in the heavily mudded cornfields; heroic night rescues of farm animals from flooding washes.  The novel ends in 1917, during great farm prosperity brought on by World War 1.

Cosponsored with Homestead National Monumuent of America