“Lily slips back into sleep, dreaming: she’s in a boxing ring, dressed in just her slip, Daniel’s boxing gloves fused to her wrists.
Author Jess Montgomery uses captivating scenes, letters, and memories to help us get to know him, the complexities of his character, and the degree to which he still looms over his wife’s life: The women in The Widows are courageous, but it’s Daniel who’s most pivotal to the story.
The trek is not even a block, and yet Lily’s stride slows with each laborious step, her heart pounding as if she’s run as she had as a child in the woods behind her grandparents’ buckwheat farm, down to Coal Creek and the Kinship Tree.” “Three days after Daniel’s been found, Lily holds the hands of her children…as they walk from their house, past the county courthouse next door that fills the corner of Main and Court streets, and down to the Kinship Presbyterian church. But dealing with her grief is the first part of her journey:
Suddenly, Lily’s search for the truth is complicated further: She must now solve the mystery both of her husband’s demise and of his relationship with Marvena. She has a connection to Daniel, something Lily never knew about. This curiosity is heightened further when Marvena, a widow, mother, and union organizer, knocks on Lily's door. Lily is compelled to learn the truth about how her husband died and who might've killed him. For she already realizes that the cold fury gripping her heart won’t ease, that she won’t be able to be a proper mother, to find her way with the new child, with Jolene and Micah, until she does.” “ deserves to know the details of Daniel’s death.
He wouldn’t make the mistakes the circumstances of his murder imply: Pregnant, already a mother of two, and grieving for the man she has loved her entire life, Lily cannot accept the story she's told about her husband’s death.ĭaniel was a soldier in the Great War and a man who knew how to survive. The story focuses on yet another period in American history when a woman’s quest for the truth is never an easy journey, especially when she must battle the interests of the men in her community.Īfter her husband, Sheriff Daniel Ross, is killed on his way to pick up a fugitive from the Bronwyn County jail, Lily is appointed interim sheriff. An historical mystery with richly developed characters, The Widows tells the story of two women in an Ohio coal-mining town in 1925.
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