Seven Generations According to Native American tradition, the consequences of choices made by ancestors in one generation reverberate for seven generations. Make those decisions with utmost care, they say, to guarantee good lives for those who come after. Seven generations of a motherline, all seven lived on farms, six lived in Iowa, five in Guthrie County, five widowed, four were oldest daughters, had ten or more children, three lived into their nineties, two earned high school diplomas, only one was born in a hospital and she became the keeper of the stories of her motherline.
I love the cover!
Thank you, Darlene. Nelly Murariu has created the covers of all five books, the first one while she still lived in Poland. (She and her daughter now live in Canada.)
Whoa!!
Thanks, GP.
Oh my goodness…so good, Joy. So good! 🥰
This introduction is captivating and has already pulled me in to want to read more. Good luck! 🙂
Thank you, Nancy. I had fun with this one!
Being the great-great granddaughter of an Indian Chief, I am more than excited for this book!
Oh! I want to hear your story, Annette! My motherline is pretty tame compared to that, but there were themes I wanted to ponder. Another ancestor ran away to grow up with a tribe of Indians in Ohio. I’ve written about him, but I’d like to do more with my “more interesting” ancestors sometime.
I’m happy for you, Joy. I remember that the meadowlark was the state bird when we lived in North Dakota.
Thank you, Pete. I wonder if it’s the meadowlark song that gets under your skin, hopeful and haunting at the same time. The redwing-blackbirds are back in Iowa, so I’d guess the meadowlarks are as well, but we never get to hear them here in the suburbs.
Nice cover! Can’t wait for it to come out.
Bless you, Dennis. Nelly has done the all the covers of my books!
I love the cover, and I love the introduction as well!!! 🙂
Nelly Murariu has done the covers for all my books. She still lived in Poland when she designed the first one. Now she and her daughter live in Canada. Thanks for you comment about the intro. Most of the book is written in free verse! I admit I had fun with it!
I love the cover and the poem!! When will the book available?
Thank you, Liz. I hope to see the text by next week and okay it, so at least another week after that.
You’re welcome, Joy. Looking forward to it!
Thank you, Liz.
You’re welcome, Joy.
Wonderful, Joy! You must work so hard to get all these books done.
Thanks, Eilene. I’m mostly homebound so I have plenty of time to work on something–when I can scrape the energy together. This one was such fun!
Great cover and congrats on upcoming release, Joy 🙂 My hope is that it doesn’t go on for seven generations!
Thank you, Denise. Since I have an only child who is a son, I’m the tail end of this motherline. But son Dan has a little daughter with a fascinating motherline of her own!
Wonderful Joy and cannot wait to share and to read it…♥♥
Thanks, Sally. I just created an ad for it for the next issue of a history magazine so it’s beginning to feel real.
Wonderful, Joy!
Wonderful, Joy, and I love the cover! Congratulations and I look forward to its release.
Thanks so much, Lauren!
I am so excited! Do we know the date yet. My sister is in Nashville right now visiting me and we were just discussing Leora’s Letters. She had the same reaction as I had. I cannot WAIT to get this new book. Please let me know it’s release date.
Oh, bless you! I just saw part of the interior for the first time yesterday! It will probably take her another week to finish it (Nelly, who did the cover, is gussying up the ladies in the seven generations), then to okay it, then to upload it to KDP and they have to okay it. I’m guessing the middle of April. It’s starting to feel real!