A Young Wife: A Novel

From the bestselling author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear comes “a stirring journey” (Booklist) of a mother’s sacrifice, determination, and love spanning three continents in the turn of the 20th century.

When fifteen-year-old Minke van Aisma travels to Amsterdam to care for the dying wife of an older, wealthy man named Sander DeVries, she has no idea what awaits her. Within hours of his wife’s death, Sander proposes marriage, and within days the couple sets sail for the burgeoning oil field...