The three novels written by Mildred Walker have born evidence of
versatility and exceptional talent. Dr. Norton's Wife approached
best sellerdom. This has almost as good a chance (though it has
elements that may detract from the sale which was attracted by the
medical bias of the last). Again a story of a woman's adjustment to
life in the story of the youngest daughter of a proud Michigan
family who flouts conventions by getting a newspaper job and by
marrying a brewer's son. He abandons his profession to run his
father's brewery - and on his death, Sara decides to carry on
herself. She takes the hurdles of the war and the hatred of the
German tradition; but prohibition closes the brewery and leaves the
restaurant as her mainstay. The discovery of cases of beer on the
premises brings danger to her - and her former suitor chances his
own career to prove her innocence. Good reading for the feminine
market. (Kirkus Reviews)
Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the
Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s.
Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel
son and later, as a widow, took over the business. Sara's struggle
against the intolerance and hypocrisy of family and friends who
disapproved of a woman running a brewery and opening a beer garden
makes her a standout among the characters of Mildred Walker. "The
Brewers' Big Horses" recreates the manners and traditions of
Germans in America as Prohibition gets up steam.
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