'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. From 500 Great Books by Women review by Jesse Larsen For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. Ellen begins to see everything, including her parents, with new and critical eyes in this unsparing and poignant examination of love and life. But Gil arrives and doesn't find Montana or the life of dry-land wheat farmers beautiful. It's like planning to seed in April and then having it come off so warm in March that the earth is ready.' Ellen and Gil plan their marriage for after the summer harvest. I mean that wind that blows dirt into your eyes and hair and between your teeth and roars in your ears after you've gone inside.' The harvest pays and Ellen goes off to college, where she immediately falls in love: 'I hadn't meant to fall in love so soon, but there's nothing you can do about it.

It is 1940, the year Ellen will start college if the wheat harvest is good it is September, 'like a quiet day after a whole week of wind.

I highly recommend it to anyone who appreciates great writing. I was hooked by the first lines and I stayed hooked for the entire book. Her Vermont-born father and Russian-born mother, married during the first World War, have come as homesteaders to Barton, Montana - a grain-elevator and general store. I found out about the book Winter Wheat from reading comments about the article 'Authors Favorite First Lines of Books' in The Atlantic on 7/25/13.

With an arid 'dry-land' wheat farm as both its geographic and metaphoric center, Winter Wheat tells the story of eighteen-year-old Ellen Webb.

Winter wheat book by mildred walker