The new generation growing up in the old setting, pulled up by the
roots through the invasion of modern life - motor cars, radios,
dreams of a new way of life - a far cry from the humdrum existence
of their elders. Typical of the new spirit is Cello Henderson, and
yet, when the door of opportunity is closed, she accepts her fate,
marries her "steady" and settles down to a peaceful, constructive
existence. An Upper Michigan lumber town, with the lake and the
pines and an isolated group of coal people. This story won first
prize in the Hopwood Award Contest at the University of Michigan,
in 1933. (Kirkus Reviews)
Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her
first fiction in 1934. "Fireweed "won the prestigious Avery and
Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper
Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of
Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe
Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and
flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an
isolated place where wild violet fireweed grows to the edge of the
woods.
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