

Sure, we fight sometime, but we got no hate here. 'You can write that young Gil of yours that he don't know what he think he does.

She finished her wall and poured the whitewash that was left back in the bigger pail. 'Yolochka, you don't know how love is yet.' A note on this publication: The copy of the book I read included an introduction by another great Montana writer, James Welch, which was a pleasant read after finishing Walker’s final paragraphs I never read an introduction until completing the book itself. We get mad, sure! Like ice an' snow an' thunder an' lightning storm, but they don't hurt the wheat down in the ground any.' Mom picked up her whitewash brush and slapped it against the rough boards. Mom made a sound of disgust in her throat. When I heard you that night you both sounded cold and hard.' 'But all these years, even when I was a child, I've felt that you hated each other. I couldn't look at her, but I had to say what was in my mind. Gospode Boge! I love him here so all these years!' Mom touched her breast and her face broke into life.

'No, Yelena, I never hate Ben an' Ben don't hate me. Mom was still so long I looked up at her.She shook her head. In fact, though the reading of Winter Wheat can be infuriating because it continually dives deep into Ellen’s dark internal passage to adulthood, I think it’s very likely that the author meant it to be exactly that. That's one of the things that drove him away from here, from me.' Not that it’s not well written it’s obvious that Mildred Walker (1905-1998) was a masterful writer. “And you've gone on all these years hating each other.
