Snag Seasons Silently Waiting Edited By Eileen Thiel Publication

of the grandmother of Sonnet's friend, Matthew, who spent the early years of her marriage in the landscape where my father grew up, While there was much to like about this book, one issue I had with it was that it was far too short for the topics it covered, Yes, there are marvelous anecdotes in what Thiel writes, and I love them, . . but I would have also liked to have read more about the potato farmer strike, I had never heard of that before, . . and there could have been much more about the farming life, I just felt as if Thiel was distancing herself a bit more than necessarily, Understandable, given the toughness of some of the topics, But it left me wishing that there had been more, with the stories expanded in detail, and some of the rough outlines fleshed out in further detail, I absolutely loved this book, Partly because I

grew up in Southeastern Idaho but mostly because the writing is so good! Highly recommend even if you didn't grow up picking rocks and rotten spuds off a potato combine conveyor belt.
A lovely book tracing the journey of a young wife from Southern California to a potato farm in Idaho, What courage and resilience as they built a family and a history, Life changed in unexpected ways when Eileen Mayer, a sheltered California girl, married Idaho potato farmer Gene Thiel, Her story is more than a love story, more than a coming of age story it's also a story of determination and faith, and how, sometimes, not having the right shoes for hiking means having to learn to fly instead.
Set against the backdrop of the tense political climate of thes during the loss of small family farms to big agribusiness, it's not a story of justicebut one readers can share the humor, suspense, and Eileen's new sense of the raw beauty of a farmer's way of life.


"Season Silently Waiting is a transcendent memoir, a powerful story of a young woman's journey from a life of private schools and urban gentility to the roughhewn existence of an Idaho Farmer's wife.
You will chuckle at her discoveries of farm life, you will cry with her frustrations, you will share her anger at the politics of agribusiness and its effect on the family farmer, and ultimately you will cheer for her perseverance and resilience.

It is a uniquely American story, "
B. Kent Anderson, author of Cold Glory and Silver Cross,