Reply To: Did you read the author’s note?
I liked learning about Ariel Lawhon’s source material and what she did creatively to “birth” the book. Sally Pierce and Jonathan’s story struck me as a bit fanciful in parts, so I was interested to learn that their story was based in fact, And I was sad about Cyrus, that he never married. I wonder why that was. Was he mute like AL imagines, or was there something else about him that led to his isolation? But it’s nice to know that Martha was happily surrounded by so many grandchildren – 29! – after the loss of her three children. I wonder how many of her grandchildren she might have helped deliver out of the over one thousand she ushered into the world.
