I recently discovered Connie Gault’s writing when I won a copy of A Beauty through a Goodreads Giveaway. Dave Margoshes, previously featured twice on Reading Recommendations, is a fellow-Saskatchewanian who has known Connie for many years and recommends her writing.
A Beauty
by Connie Gault
novel, literary fiction
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds herself living alone, a young Finnish woman in a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the eighteen-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. What follows is a trip through…
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