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The Journey Home
- Narrated by: Cassandra Arnold
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
In the midst of the Great Depression, Cassandra Scheimer is trying to keep the family farm afloat in the Big Woods of Wisconsin...alone. As a local midwife and struggling backwoods doctor, she certainly doesn't need more mouths to feed.
Stephanie Evans is a widow enceinte with her third child. She accepts a kind stranger’s offer of marriage in exchange for keeping house for him...but he never shows up to claim her. While dealing with unrequited guilt and the desperation of impoverished motherhood, moving in and consequentially falling in love with Cass is the least of her worries.
For Cass, having been in love with a woman once before, she feels it couldn’t possibly happen twice. When it does, Cass is convinced the love cannot be returned. Can she and Stephanie keep it hidden from the prying eyes of children and the meddling neighbors in this small rural community?
Can Cass deal with the guilt she feels over her brother’s injury, an injury that prevents him from doing his duty for their country? She worries joining the Nursing Corps may put too much stress on her newfound relationship with Stephanie, yet she decides to join nonetheless.
The woman who returns from the war and the woman left behind on the farm are not the same people who once fell in love. Can they return to being lovers after years spent apart? Destiny put them in each other’s path, but will World War II tear apart their love?
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- 15-11-20
Interesting but badly written and narrated.
As a social history geek, I really hope that K'Anne Meinel has accurately represented the information she imparts about living and farming in 1930s and post WW2 Wisconsin. To my mind, it is these fascinating social and historical details that redeem this clumsily written and monotonously narrated tale.
The story contains a number of plot turns that could have been made believable if it was better structured and written so that the characters were more rounded earlier on in their tale. Much of the writing is clumsy and can be repetitive in trying to convey the naive tone of rural Wisconsin folk. Fortunately, the narrative also includes passages that hit the spot and transport the listener into the author's world. In places it includes phrases that convey the local vernacular well, these fill out scenes of rural life and move the listener to empathise with the characters, their predicaments and concerns.
The approach of Cassandra Arnold, the narrator, is badly lacking in emotion. She does not have the acting skills needed to bring life to this story or to bring much needed variety to the characters' voices. Arnold's approach is monotonous and muddles the narrative rather than bringing often needed clarity. Sadly, this production detracts considerably from the overall audiobook.
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