Sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions -- the ruggedness and the promise -- ...
A Midwestern girl balances her dreams of becoming a dancer with the complications of growing up on her own, far from her working-class family, in this lithe, hopeful portrait of a young woman striving for greatness, from the autho...