Fireweed

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Summary: Marriage in a small town
Review: In Mildred Walker's Fireweed she examines one young woman's life in a small town. The life of her young heroine is told so matter a factly yet it is so powerful.

The young girl has dreams of moving to a big city, becoming famous, important and independent of her current life. Ultimately her life becomes all the things she is determined it will not be; burdened with marriage, children and financial concerns in her own hometown.

Fireweed transports the reader so completely into anothers life yet causes them to reflect on their own life, the decisions they have made and where those decisions have taken them.