Gone with life!
Bigger than the world
Doris and Tup met and fell in love.
It was the early 1930s in Maine, United States of America.
Tuc’s father would have wanted his son to continue his studies and not take up the difficult profession of farmer which was his and that of his ancestors.
Was it a real desire or a “masked prayer”?
Anyway, Tuc and his young wife settled on this livestock farm and decided that it would be their love nest and their life path.
Ah the earth!
With determination, the couple cleaned everything, arranged everything to their liking so that this farm where the work is difficult but fascinating becomes their place of life where they and their children will find a haven of peace.
From this union, three children were born who very quickly participated in the life and work of the farm in communion with nature.
The reader discovers the harsh but demanding lives of these women and men who defy the elements and accidents to build a common future.
Unfortunately, the eldest child who has just celebrated his fourteenth birthday dies while handling an old revolver with his brother and sister.
It is a terrible, abominable tragedy that leads to fractures and strong reactions.
How to continue to live?
Everyone does what they can, Doris locks herself in her grief and Tup continues to run the farm by looking elsewhere for comfort and impossible diversion.
As for the brother and sister, they are trying to survive.
The road to rebuilding this family is long and difficult, but life can and must be stronger
This symphony for several voices is a dramatic, luminous story, an ode to life, to its meaning.
In this first novel, there is a little air resembling Gone with the Wind!
Jean-François Chalot
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