Shrouding Woman
The moving story of a young girl''s struggle to face her mother''s death.
"She traveled to our small white house near the Iowa border on a buckboard, her green bag caked with the dusty road . . . I knew that she was called "the Shrouding Woman" because I''d heard Papa use those words to describe her. I didn''t know what it meant but I knew it had something to do with death."
It was once common pract...
The moving story of a young girl''s struggle to face her mother''s death.
"She traveled to our small white house near the Iowa border on a buckboard, her green bag caked with the dusty road . . . I knew that she was called "the Shrouding Woman" because I''d heard Papa use those words to describe her. I didn''t know what it meant but I knew it had something to do with death."
It was once common pract...
