Another Form

Patersons in Missouri

by David Carlyle

 

Book Details

Patersons cope with adversity and an abusive boss.


The story of Kenzie and Erroll Paterson continues in this second book of a four-generational, two-book saga. While living in Scotland, the Patersons buy a farm in Missouri from a traveling salesman. Hoping to escape a life of poverty and conflict, they return to the United States in 1912, after 25 years away. Still struggling with poverty and trying to earn a living from their farm, the Patersons learn that their former boss in Inverness, who claimed to be Erroll's uncle, is an impostor and in a mental hospital. Erroll is heir to an estate worth over five million American dollars. Their Christian faith, born during their travels in Scotland, matures in Missouri, and the Patersons are able to help those who helped them survive in Scotland. The focus turns to the Patersons’ grandson McLaren and his struggles with a boyhood rival, with whether to dig for gold on the family farm, with romantic decisions, and with a murderer and liar. Later, he wrestles with whether he should help his aging father on the farm or travel the world—advising people about flowers, grass, and parks, and earning a far better living than the farm could provide. Follow this family’s journey in Another Form, a sweeping saga of love and determination in the face of adversity.

 

Book Excerpt

"We have to answer that letter, Kenzie. I don't know what we'll say in an answer, but we have to say something." "Do you think we can act like we never saw the letter, and they'll let it drop?" "No, and we can't do that." "Erroll, we're about to get on our financial feet, and if this person is my mother, she'll knock us back off. I think we should say we never heard of her, and that's probably true." "I don't agree, Kenzie. Let's at least pray about it, then talk to Pastor Nick about it on Sunday, before we put her out as trash."

 

About the Author

David Carlyle

David Carlyle was born in rural Johnson County, Missouri. He graduated from MU in Columbia with a BS in chemical engineering, then from ISU in Ames with a PhD in chemistry. He later taught at Odessa High School in Missouri and operated the family farm in Johnson County.

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