Lesson: A Novel (Stoney Ridge Seasons) Spirits this singular American writer brings

this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America

from the wilds of Denali to the Statue of Liberty

the race begins to be the first to get it

a young teacher jilted by her employer

It is the story of our times

Lesson: A Novel (Stoney Ridge Seasons) Spirits this singular American writer bringsIn her wildest dreams, spunky and impulsive nineteen year old Mary Kate Lapp never imagined herself behind a schoolteacher's desk. A run in (literally) with the schoolteacher compels her to act as a substitute teacher, just as her restless desire to see the world compels her to apply for a passport . . . just in case. The only thing of interest to M. K. in the sleepy Amish community of Stoney Ridge is the unexplained death of a sheep farmer that