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The Practice House

di Laura McNeal

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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love.In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house new teachers. With no money and too much pride to turn back, she lives uneasily with the family of Ansel Price--the charming, optimistic man who placed the ad--and his family responds to her with kind curiosity, suspicion, and, most dangerously, love. Just as she's settling into her strange new life, a storm forces unspoken thoughts to the surface that will forever alter the course of their lives.Laura McNeal's novel is a sweeping and timeless love story about leaving--and finding--home.… (altro)

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This was a compelling story of two sisters who migrate to the United States. With a focus on one sister and her experiences living in Kansas and the family she meets. The author has created very believable characters and placed them in a time period with immense challenges. It reminded me in a way of "The Grapes of Wrath" yet not so dark. It is a very good story that I'll remember for a long time. (

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LuLibro | Jan 22, 2024 |

All 109 chapters of the most sad depressing story I have ever read. (Or rather listened to - did the Audible Version) Had hoped for a better ending but as it was it just ended up as it began. Nothing exciting ever happens in 1930's Kansas other than the dust storms, and like one of those dust storms, this book seemed to go everywhere and nowhere. In the end nobody was really better off than they were in the beginning, they were just different and in a few cases worse. If it was bad and could happen, it happened, and just when you thought the story was going to take a turn for the better they would get hit with some fresh new catastrophe. Historically though, it was very accurate. In fact I started watching the Ken Burns Documentary about the Dust Bowl while reading this and everything in the story lines up quite well. If you're looking for a happy ending go look elsewhere. (

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Jen-Lynn | Aug 1, 2022 |

The characters struck me as shallow. That may have been intentional: the characters as ungrounded as the dirt in Kansas literally blowing away. It still resulted in me not feeling any particular sympathy for any of the characters and their plight. One character this inconsistency showed strongly for was Ellie. Maybe it was just her way of showing disapproval for Aldine, but when they were in Kansas, Ellie was uptight and sanctimonious. In California, she was a completely different person. Not just happier, which is understandable, but almost unconnected from who she had been.The book used multiple viewpoints enough that this could have been handled by giving us just a hint of her perspective. Instead, we just see her change to a completely different person.
It's a pity, because Ellie's story of building a new life for her family despite hardships would have made for a better centerpiece than Aldine and Ansel's romance.

The plot was predictable and seemed to just plot along its course without the characters doing much to help it along. Aldine was especially disappointing. She seemed like she would be a compelling character who took charge of her own life, but once she got to Kansas, she just drifted along.

The relationships are hollow. As far as I can tell, Aldine falls for Ansel for little better reason than that he's an attractive and in her vicinity, the same reason Ansel and his son Clare both fall for her.

I didn't hate the book, but I was glad to be finished with it. (

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eri_kars | Jul 10, 2022 |

Ehh. Neither good nor horrible. Could have ended a lot sooner than it did. (

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pacbox | Jul 9, 2022 |

This is a 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟book. After a couple of middle-of-the-nights of either insomnia or "I just had to read this book" I spent this evening finishing it. It's just terrific even to the extent you can guess what's coming. It's slow and methodical but I never once wanted to quit reading. It's just that well-written. Read it and enjoy. (

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KarenMonsen | Mar 28, 2018 |

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Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love.In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas. She arrives as farms on the Great Plains have begun to fail and schools are going bankrupt, unable to pay or house new teachers. With no money and too much pride to turn back, she lives uneasily with the family of Ansel Price--the charming, optimistic man who placed the ad--and his family responds to her with kind curiosity, suspicion, and, most dangerously, love. Just as she's settling into her strange new life, a storm forces unspoken thoughts to the surface that will forever alter the course of their lives.Laura McNeal's novel is a sweeping and timeless love story about leaving--and finding--home.

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