Vinegar Hill

b" In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of\nself-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling\nworld of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972\nwhen circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field,\nWisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has\nbrought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a\nloveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where\ncalculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of\na rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins\nand "