Desire and Inheritance

A daughter of a German family moves to the U.S. as a young woman in the ‘60s but later wonders what shaped her family. She looks back at family documents and her memory, interviews family and others, and tells her story in this book that spans WWI, the depression, WWII, the reconstruction she knew growing up in the ‘50s, and beyond 2000. The story focuses on her and her farmer-businessman father whose sexual passions and desires and his concern to pass a significant inheritance to his children shaped all their lives.