Vinegar Hill

A. Manette Ansay’s bleak, powerful novel is set in 1972, when Ellen Grier, her out-of-work husband, and their children are forced to move into his parents’ grim house in small-town Wisconsin. Under the roof of her cruel mother-in-law and silent father-in-law, and beside a defeated husband, Ellen struggles against a suffocating family and a suffocating faith as she looks for a way out.