TY - SER KW - farms KW - widows and widowers AU - Catherine Tudish AB - Nathan Rownd is a widowed farmer in the fictional Monongahela Valley village of Tenney’s Landing. When a tractor accident nearly kills him, daughter Virginia and her teenage son move back from suburbia in order to work the farm as Nathan recovers. The plot develops as Virginia discovers the call of the land versus the challenge of her separation from her husband and her usual life. C1 - 2000s C3 - Fayette County; Monongahela River; Greene County; Greensboro C4 - Literary; Psychological CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Nathan Rownd is a widowed farmer in the fictional Monongahela Valley village of Tenney’s Landing. When a tractor accident nearly kills him, daughter Virginia and her teenage son move back from suburbia in order to work the farm as Nathan recovers. The plot develops as Virginia discovers the call of the land versus the challenge of her separation from her husband and her usual life. PB - Scribner PP - New York PY - 2006 RN - Catherine Tudish (1952— ), born in Greensboro, Greene County, had a brief stay on the Monongahela River before traveling the world with her military family. She's worked as a journalist and taught literature and writing at Harvard and Dartmouth. EP - 320 p. TI - American Cream ER -