Olivia, Mourning

by Yael Politis

Overview

Olivia wants the 80 acres in far off Michigan that her father left to whichever of his offspring might choose to stake a claim to that land. As Olivia says, "I am sprung off him just as much as Avis or Tobey."
The problem: she is seventeen, female, and it is 1841.
Strong-willed, vulnerable, and compassionate, Olivia is a compelling protagonist on a journey to find a way to do the right thing in a world in which so much is wrong.

 

"A terrific read." Valentina Hepburn, YouWriteOn Reviewer
"I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this story." Book Addict
"What a wonderful book. As soon as I read a few pages, I was hooked." Carolyn in Michigan
 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046598186
Publisher:	Yael Politis
Publication date:	02/24/2015
Series:	Yael Politis's Olivia Series , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	28,474
File size:	646 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, in the house on the cover of Book 3 of the Olivia series, not far from the location of Olivia's farm.
While studying at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, I spent two summers in Israel and ended up coming back to make my life here. Since then I've spent a lot of time traveling between the Middle East and the Midwest, loving both my homes.
While living on Kibbutz Ein Tsurim I learned the story of the Etzion Bloc during Israel's War of Independence – from people who had lived through it. It was many years before I dared to try to put it down on paper. At that time, fantasies aside, I considered writing nothing more than a hobby.
I did, however, post the first chapters of The Lonely Tree on a writers' workshop run by the London Arts Council. There it received a Book of the Year award and Holland Park Press of London asked to see the complete manuscript. Not long afterwards I received an email from them. "We want to publish your book." Hey, you never know when a fantasy is going to come true.
For years I had been researching the backdrop for Olivia's story and based many of the details in the Olivia Series on letters and journals passed down through my family, over seven generations of lives lived in the American Midwest. I also received a great deal of information and insight from my sister Martha, who lived with her husband in a modern log home, hunted her own land, cut her own firewood, and was as independent and stubborn as Olivia. Then self-publishing happened. The prospect of being able to publish that story independently was a great motivator, and I finally completed and published the five books of the Olivia series.