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The Dark Walk Forward
The small town of Ste. Odile in America has experienced the Great War in ways that no one should ever have to endure.
Doctors must tend to births and deaths that make their most difficult cases seem benign.
An 1880s schoolteacher is faced with the worst blizzard of her time and must save the children under her charge.
A young man searches for his father in the abandoned orphanage the older man owns... and both know they will despair at what they find.
A primitive woman experiences colonization and the stereotypes of men, yet finds her own method of retribution.
John S. McFarland has slogged through his characters woes and woven them into sweetly emotional yet acutely distressing tales. We as readers are forced to understand the pain, the despair, and sometimes the hope of his creations.
We realize we are lucky to live in the era we do. We also realize anything can change to tear us apart. Is it fate? Destiny? Or do we bring about these changes on our own?
McFarland will let us know.
Doctors must tend to births and deaths that make their most difficult cases seem benign.
An 1880s schoolteacher is faced with the worst blizzard of her time and must save the children under her charge.
A young man searches for his father in the abandoned orphanage the older man owns... and both know they will despair at what they find.
A primitive woman experiences colonization and the stereotypes of men, yet finds her own method of retribution.
John S. McFarland has slogged through his characters woes and woven them into sweetly emotional yet acutely distressing tales. We as readers are forced to understand the pain, the despair, and sometimes the hope of his creations.
We realize we are lucky to live in the era we do. We also realize anything can change to tear us apart. Is it fate? Destiny? Or do we bring about these changes on our own?
McFarland will let us know.
208 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2020
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July 13, 2024
Didn’t love the stories quite as much as -The Black Garden- but they are still impeccably crafted. Still don’t understand why McFarland has not enjoyed more readership…
4.5 stars rounded up.
4.5 stars rounded up.
December 3, 2022
One of the Most spell binding punches in the face I have ever gotten.
January 11, 2024
I absolutely LOVED this book. Found it through the “scare you to sleep” podcast and I couldn’t put it down.
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