500 Great Books By Women discussion

All But the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family, Mary Clearman Blew, 1991, United States, MEMOIR

"...By telling the stories of her ancestors, people who began settling in central Montana in 1882, then weaving their tales with her own, she creates a revealing family portrait and a fascinating lesson in the social and economic history of Montana. Although she speaks of the beauty and the feeling of glorious space that comes to inhabit the souls of the homesteaders and their descendants, she also reveals the cruelties imposed by geography, distance, and climate..."

(R.S., p. 229)