Pickett’s Gap

A mountain of fragrant clover rolls toward the barn, hiding the horses and driver from view. Abner Pickett owns the wagon, the team, and every acre around him—so why does the proud old farmer look so unhappy?

In late-summer Pennsylvania, Abner’s four-hundred-acre homestead is more than a farm: it is the inheritance he means to pass intact to his son, Charlie. But Charlie would rather roam the countryside with a compass and surveyor’s chain than work the fields, and grief for his young wife has made the old farmhouse feel lonelier than ever. Abner’s tender devotion to his grandson Dannie and to the family graveyard reveals a softer heart beneath his sharp tongue, yet father and son are growing further apart. Can they find a way to honor the past without letting it divide them?

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