The Able McLaughlins

Summary

In a tightly knit Scottish immigrant settlement on the Iowa frontier just after the Civil War, a young veteran returns home to discover a wrong done to the woman he loves and must decide how to respond within the community's strict moral code. Wilson draws on her own Iowa upbringing to render the dialect, faith, and family bonds of pioneer life with quiet authenticity. The novel is a study of conscience, kinship, and the cost of justice on the prairie.