Shrinking Violet’s April Book: Bold Spirit by Linda Lawrence Hunt
The Shrinking Violet’s Book Group has chosen:
Bold Spirit
by local author Linda Lawrence Hunt
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb.
Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women’s achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
You can find the book in the Local Interest section at Auntie’s Bookstore. Make sure you let them know it’s for the book club so you can get a discount.
Our book group meetings usually take place on the third Sunday of every month. However, this meeting will be on the fourth Sunday, April 25th, at the Linda Lawrence Hunt’s retreat house on the north side of Spokane!
Join us on:
Sunday April 25th
1-3 pm
Linda Lawrence Hunt’s Meeting Place (Address TBA)
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If you cannot make this meeting and would like to join us for our May meeting, we will be reading:
Prisoner of Tehran
by Marina Nemat
May 16th
Location: TBA
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like to recommend future books for us to read:
Becky – beckyhuss [at] gmail [dot] com
Hilary – hilwhitt [at] hotmail [dot] com
Monique – moneeeq [at] gmail [dot] com
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