A gem of a story, which leaves the reader wishing it hadn't stopped
when it did (and how seldom that is true today). Against a Vermont
setting, she has told another story of old age intestate. Or almost
so - for Marcia Elder had her ancestral home, a lonely hillside
farm. But the village folk worried about her being there alone, and
the thought of her 84th winter and the problem of keeping the fire
going frightened her into accepting a plan to take in another woman
to be company (and to inherit the place when she died). But it
didn't work out that way. Bea Cannon made her feel old and
helpless; she bossed her too much and ran things her own (not
Marcia's) way. She changed the whole pattern of life - -and finally
uprooted her completely. It took Bea's sudden death to free Marcia
to come back, in the very teeth of a snowstorm, too, and find her
own solution, a way to end her days in her own "southwest corner".
Remember Edna Ferber's ?? Here is the other side of the coin.
Charmingly written, without undue sentimentality; a slight tale but
an appealing one. (Kirkus Reviews)
At eighty-three Marcia Elder was alert and active but felt insecure
about facing another winter alone, yet she dreaded giving up her
old home and entering a re-tirement facility. So, with great
resourcefulness, she advertised for a companion and eventually
staked out a corner of her own--one with a view. Mildred Walker's
skill as a storyteller never falters in this portrayal of an
elderly woman who won't give up.
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