The matter of fact attitude of early settlers may seem cold sometimes, but only the tough survive and thrive. Life is still harsh and unforgiving in Arizona Territory. The Prine family come to life, and through all their trials and troubles, you keep rooting for them. Sarah, one of my top female characters EVER, is featured here as wise counsel to her niece, still tough as nails and running her own ranch. I zipped through this novel faster than I expected to the story of Mary Pearl and her family is so skillfully written that I gulped it all down like a good cup of coffee.
Slowly making friends and finding her way through school, she begins to settle into life away from Arizona and her parent's ranch.Īlright. But, she finds the one thing that will change her life: photography. She's the young lady from the Wild West, and is at odds with the sophisticated students who attend her school. Mary Pearl's life changes at Wheaton College. She decides to leave for college quickly, sending Aubrey a letter stating that she does want to marry him, just not quite yet. Mary Pearl is torn between marriage to an up and coming young man, and following her dream to attend college. However, just as she's making preparations, in walks Aubrey Hanna, a rising lawyer who sees Mary Pearl and decides he must marry her. She's been accepted into Wheaton College in Illinois to study art and is excited to go. Mary Pearl is seventeen and wants to go to college. It's 1907, and Arizona is still a territory of the United States, and still a dangerous place to live. Light Changes Everything tells the story of Mary Pearl Prine, Sarah's niece. However, Nancy Turner kept writing, and wrote Sarah's Quilt and The Star Garden, and My Name is Resolute, which continue the story of Sarah Prine, and then jump back to Sarah's ancestor, Resolute. So I will continue to tell people about These is My Words, all based on my first and only read. I like to preserve that experience of discovering a story that sticks with me the first time I read it, and I think that if I read it again, it will somehow change for me, and I don't want that. Most people re-read favorite novels over and over, but I don't.
To this day, it remains one of my favorite novels.
I read Nancy Turner's first novel, These is My Words, waaaay back in the late 1990's, and absolutely fell in love with it. To say I was a little excited to read this book would be an understatement.
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