The Manning Girl
Browder, Catherine
The novel is a quiet but strong tour de force." Marly Swick, author of Evening News: A Novel1992. Tyler Manning-- high school teacher, part-time farmer, bachelor of 38--is planning his first day of summer vacation when a strange car approaches his Kansas farmhouse. By the time the battered Ford departs, Tyler is holding a three-week-old infant. The baby's father is his estranged brother. Woven throughout the narrative of May Manning's upbringi...
