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A Gathering of Finches
(1997, 2009)
She was a fiery, passionate woman, and though she lived one hundred years ago, her struggles - based on fact - were both contemporary and transfixing. She was Cassie Hendrick Stearns Simpson, a New York woman of Dutch descent.
Secrets and skeletons, painful impulse and choice weave through Cassie's life, telling a story as tangled as the blackberry vines that thrive along the Pacific coast. Mystery and disaster shroud her liaison with Louis Simpson, California shipping and lumber entrepreneur, founder of North Bend, Oregon, and heir to one of the world's richest estates.
With the benefit of hindsight, Cassie's story steps from her generation to our own, to teach us and to touch us with her struggle for substance and forgiveness. Her story gives meaning to the question, "What does it profit a man if he gains the world, but loses his soul?"
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Reviews
"Jane Kirkpatrick takes readers on a journey so real that they'll forget they're reading a book. It is the perfect blend of historical intrigue, spiritual insight, and literary ambiance."
--Register Guard, Eugene, Oregon
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