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In the 1970s, Annie Chappell dreams of a homesteading life-a life
like the one depicted in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the
Big Woods, where the world is uncomplicated. If she can get to that
place, she thinks, the trouble she faces at home-alcohol use,
sexual abuse, and the sorrows of modern-day issues-will disappear.
Home in Denver during a break from boarding school in the spring of
1973, she meets Bill, a mountain man Vietnam vet who's traveling
through town on his way back to his cabin on the Canadian border in
Montana, and she falls in love with the life he describes. In
October, after months of imagining a life with Bill, she runs away
from boarding school in the East to find him so he can teach her
the wild ways. When Annie's plan fails, she goes back to school to
graduate, but she continues to exchange letters with Bill for the
rest of the school year-and after graduation, with her parents'
blessing, she makes her way to Montana to live with him.
Homesteading with an older man in the wilderness, however, presents
challenges she hasn't anticipated. Ultimately, Annie's experiences
with Bill push her to face her own strengths and fears, as well as
her relationship with her parents and home-and to begin to figure
out who she really wants to be.
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