The Hole in the Heartland: An American Mystery

See Larger Image	List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $14.95 Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Manufacturer: Spectare Press Written By: B. Greenbie Average Customer Rating: [ not yet rated ]


Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 929.20973 EAN: 9780965190077 ISBN: 0965190072 Label: Spectare Press Manufacturer: Spectare Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 265 Publication Date: 1996-01 Publisher: Spectare Press Studio: Spectare Press
Related Items Death on the Family Tree (Family Tree Mysteries, Book 1) Family Skeletons (Torie O'Shea, Book 1)
Editorial Reviews: A retired professor's search for his father's mysterious origins unfolds into a wide-angle view of twentieth century America. Since childhood, Barrie Barstow Greenbie could trace his mother's forebears back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1630 and across North America to Barstow, California, but until middle-age, he knew only that that his father was born in a sod hut on the Dakota frontier. Not until age forty, after his father's death, did he learn the first names of his grandparents, whom his mother identified as Swedes. He is a great grandfather himself when he discovers that his grandparents were not Swedes, but Russian Jews, refugees from the pogroms of Czar Alexander II. The mystery then becomes not who they were, but why his father kept their identity a secret, apparently even from his own wife. The answer proves to be not quite what might be expected.