"Written with elegance, imagination, and historical savvy, Pat Laster's "A Journey of Choice" grabbed me from the beginning and drew me into the life and travails of Liddy Underhill ..." -Sandy Raschke, Fiction Editor, "Calliope, A Writer's Workshop by Mail" In 1932, young Liddy Underhill, just graduated from high school, lands a reporter's job in an adjacent town and hitches a ride with a peddler who lives there. From the first night of her journey throughout the next decade, Liddy is beset with challenges. She marries and begins a life with her husband, Heth. When tragedy changes the course of her life, though, Liddy must find a way to reclaim her life and find happiness, Along the way, she becomes the victim of a womanizer, a controlling doctor, and an arsonist. She suffers abandonment and an emotional breakdown. Set in the Missouri Ozarks of the 1930s, "A Journey of Choice" tells the riveting tale of an enterprising young woman dealing with events beyond her control and the message of hope that emerges from her story.

"Written with elegance, imagination, and historical savvy, Pat Laster's "A Journey of Choice" grabbed me from the beginning and drew me into the life and travails of Liddy Underhill ..." -Sandy Raschke, Fiction Editor, "Calliope, A Writer's Workshop by Mail" In 1932, young Liddy Underhill, just graduated from high school, lands a reporter's job in an adjacent town and hitches a ride with a peddler who lives there. From the first night of her journey throughout the next decade, Liddy is beset with challenges. She marries and begins a life with her husband, Heth. When tragedy changes the course of her life, though, Liddy must find a way to reclaim her life and find happiness, Along the way, she becomes the victim of a womanizer, a controlling doctor, and an arsonist. She suffers abandonment and an emotional breakdown. Set in the Missouri Ozarks of the 1930s, "A Journey of Choice" tells the riveting tale of an enterprising young woman dealing with events beyond her control and the message of hope that emerges from her story.