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A White Bird Flying

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A White Bird Flying (1931) Abbie Deal, matriarch of a Nebraska pioneer family, has just died at the beginning of this story, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura, the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's artistic aspiration had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow, the more life intervenes. Laura is at the center of a new generation of Deals in this sequel to A Lantern in Her Hand.

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A White Bird Flying (1931) Abbie Deal, matriarch of a Nebraska pioneer family, has just died at the beginning of this story, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura, the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's artistic aspiration had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow, the more life intervenes. Laura is at the center of a new generation of Deals in this sequel to A Lantern in Her Hand.

A White Bird Flying (1931) Abbie Deal, matriarch of a Nebraska pioneer family, has just died at the beginning of this story, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura, the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's artistic aspiration had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow, the more life intervenes. Laura is at the center of a new generation of Deals in this sequel to A Lantern in Her Hand.

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