Abounding Grace

by Don R. Messman, Susan Quinn (Editor)

Abounding Grace is by turns poignant and rollicking. It is a multi-layered account of green-as-grass homesteaders with their bright-eyed optimism, their triumph over adversity and their lively adventures, all swathed in grace abounding.

Based on his parents’ experiences as homesteaders in Montana early in the 20th century, the author chronicles the interwoven lives of four amazing people, surrounded by a rich assortment of friends and family. Their triumphs, calamities, and hardships create the texture of this marvelous tale. Humor and hilarity intermingle with pain and poignancy to capture and hold the reader until the end. The author leaves it to the reader to to separate the impossibly real from the really impossible.

"To most of those people in the county it seemed that once two young people started seeing each other on a regular basis, it wasn’t too long until the girl either changed her mind or changed her last name. And the people who knew her best had a strong hunch that when the time came, Jelly wouldn’t change her mind."

394 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2023