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Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a gritty, marrow-deep tale of 1 of the families of Germans from Russia who resolved on the North american Prairie. Urs Wagnor is a sometimes crude and prideful tenant farmer with a brutal love for land that needs to be his. Instead, in the spring of 1946, in the wake of plantation failures and foreclosures, his areas participate in "Humpy" Chris, a calculating landlord deformed in body and heart and soul. Urs doesn't own his land any longer than he is the owner of the center of his partner, Margaret, who enjoys the god that sustains her, equally as it suffered her German peasant ancestors who resolved and struggled on the Russian steppe a century before. Now, Margaret is pregnant again - and Urs wants a son. The easy words and sentiments of common people belie the enormity and threat of individual passions and their twisted and concealed source. Only the youngster, Annie, has the innocent capabilities of insight, creativeness, and compassion that might save them from themselves. She perceives the desolate wind-flattened prairie as a never-ending expanse of loss of life and rebirth, peopled with animals of mythical sizes. Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a psychological, character-driven tale in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Plainsong. In addition, it recalls the terse, anxious dilemma of O.E. Rolvaag's typical Giants in the Earth. Here, the vast dome of ever-changing sky shifts with the narrative from dreamy solitude to churning conflict. The writer, Donna B. Mack, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and has a MFA in creative writing from UAA.
