The windswept Flint Hills of Kansas
promised bountiful wildlife and fertile valleys, but for Virginia, Helen
and Leah it was an empty promise. Dreams here often withered and died from
starvation or the harshness and unpredictability of the climate. Eventually, each woman must face the decision to set
aside her own hopes and dreams in the struggle to maintain home and family
against impossible odds.
Skillfully creating compassionate
characters with a range of emotions, Windborne is a novel unique in style and
scope. Set against a historical backdrop
of major economic and cultural changes of the past century, it is an elegantly
timeless tale about the nature of love, love and awakening.
“Heartfelt and at
times quietly moving, this memoir-like work of fiction uses the tapestry of one
family in the Flint Hills of Kansas and their struggles, triumphs and tragedies
over decades to paint a portrait of a country as it grows and changes with the
world around it. Wanda DeHaven Pyle uses a fast-flowing narrative more than
dialog to cover much ground within only a few chapters or pages, yet there
exists an intimacy, as though we the reader are being offered a view from
heaven of this particular family and the decisions which shaped their future and
those of successive generations.” – Bobby Underwood, author of the Matt Ransom
series of novels
