At the Edge of the Orchard

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At the Edge of the Orchard is written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Large Print Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1594139458 (ISBN 10) and 9781594139451 (ISBN 13).

James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run for ever.