Jessamyn West

Episodic chapters about the Birdwell family, nineteenth century Quakers living in Indiana during the period following the Civil War.

The tenderly funny story of a modern girl's growing up. Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an occasional touch of exasperation and a twinge of heartache at the memory of your own growing pains. She's the girl who invented Delahanty's Law for Saving Time. The high-school kid who decided...

The story of a Quaker family and the crisis which surrounds them with the onset of the Civil War.