Growing Home

Life delivers lessons in the most unexpected ways. For a young girl on her family farm in rural Missouri, it all begins in the barn. That’s where Mary comes face to face with her questioning heart and the answers she never could have imagined. Growing Home is the story of one girl’s hunger to know more about her roots and looking for ways to understand herself. Living on the farm with Grandpa in the early 1960’s, Mary begins to live her way into the answers she’s been looking for, at a price that is unimaginably high. As she recovers from the trauma that came of her searching, her lessons are just beginning. With the help of loving women, both past and present, Mary grows into knowing herself. In this powerful and moving story, Jane S. Schreiner shares a poignant message of what it is embrace yourself through daunting circumstances, change, and choosing to stand on your own.