Ginny and Rose take turns cooking meals for their aging father. Ginny and Rose have big plans for their land they want to convert it into a modern, up-to-date farm. With Larry’s property now in the hands of Ginny and Rose, and with Caroline married to Frank and practicing law in Des Moines, life moves on. Jess, the child of Harold and the brother of Loren Clark, is a magnetic, charismatic young man, who fled to Canada rather than fight in the Vietnam War. He cuts Caroline out of the will, leaving Rose and Ginny in control of his hugely valuable farmland.Īround the time that Larry divides up his land, Jess Clark, the son of Harold Clark, Larry’s friend and rival, comes back to town after years spent traveling the world. Larry, a drunk, taciturn man, spitefully tells Caroline to get out of his house. When Larry announces his plan, Ginny and Rose are in favor of the idea, while Caroline is skeptical of it. Rose has been in and out of the hospital for breast cancer treatment, and will have to go undergo regular tests for the rest of her life.Īs he gets older, Larry comes up with a plan to avoid paying death taxes or property taxes on his land: he’ll pass on his land to his three daughters while he’s still alive. Rose and Ginny live on their father’s land, while Caroline lives in the city of Des Moines. Ginny is married to Ty, a farmer, Rose is married to Pete, a musician from another state, and Caroline, the only one of the three daughters who attended college, is soon to be married to Frank.
Larry Cook is a prominent Midwestern farmer with three daughters, Ginny (the eldest, and the narrator of the novel), Rose, and Caroline, the youngest.
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