Michelle Hoover | The Quickening | Pushcart Prize nominee visits with debut novel

Pushcart Prize nominee Michelle Hoover visits with her debut novel, The Quickening, which is based on her grandmother’s diary and family oral histories. Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest. Drawn together out of loneliness, they forge a profound bond soon challenged by a series of disquieting events. Told through the voices of these two women, The Quickening  is an epic narrative of the bitter feud between two Iowa farming families, a feud lasting forty years, through two World Wars, and the Great Depression—a story of survival, hardship, violent betrayal, and the discovery and loss of lifelong love.