Mary Emma & Company

The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" inLittle BritchesandMan of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma & Companycontinues the Moody saga that started in Colorado withLittle Britchesand runs throughMan of the FamilyandThe Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as hasThe Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.Moody, Ralph is the author of 'Mary Emma & Company ' with ISBN 9780803282117 and ISBN 0803282117.