Tia Fiskum, the old maid of Tolga Township, yearns to retain her hold on the family farm after her shell-shocked brother returns from World War II.
The neighbor she hopes to marry chooses a town girl for his new wife.
The Potato King listens to the radio preacher and prays for a miracle.
Eddy Root fears a return to the asylum.
A German war bride struggles to find acceptance in this tight-knit Scandinavian community.
Woven throughout is the man who walks lizards, a grieving father, a disillusioned pastor and the neighborhood gossipmonger.
Shelterbelts chronicles the life of a community struggling to return to normal after war, true to history while rich in the complications of the human spirit.
North Star Press Of St. Cloud Shelterbelts, paperback/candace simar
