Books by Ellen Baker and Complete Book Reviews
Ellen Baker, Author . Random $24.95 (530p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6635-3
Baker's first novel is a long and uneven multigeneration family saga set in small town Wisconsin. In 1896, Wilma comes to the rough backwoods town of Pine Rapids as the alarmed new bride of a lumber baron's first son, John Mickelson. Wilma...
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Ellen Baker. Random, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6636-0
Baker (Keeping the House) mixes past and present, love and loss, forgiveness and renewal in this sensitive cross-generational story of the lingering effects of WWII. As part of the war effort, Grace Anderson works as a welder in a Wisconsin shipyard
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Ellen Baker. Mariner, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-335119-6
The uneven latest from Baker (Keeping the House) poses questions about adoption and family heritage. In a small town in Minnesota in 2015, Cecily Larson, 94, breaks her hip and, confined to a hospital bed, realizes time may be running out to share...
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