Struggling to survive on a late nineteenth-century Hudson Valley violet farm that provides their family little money, wet nurse Ida and her beloved daughter, Alice, make painful sacrifices that set them against each other.

Struggling to survive on a late 19th-century Hudson Valley violet farm that supports her older brothers-in-law but leaves her husband little to provide their family, wet nurse Ida makes painful sacrifices that sets her against her beloved daughter in a long struggle for honesty and forgiveness. Original. 50,000 first printing.