Hickory Road sends its news in a letter. The part that matters often happens after the writer puts down her pencil.
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In a Pennsylvania Amish district, neighbours leave news for a local scribe who sends a weekly account to a community paper. Births, rain and visitors make the page. Courtships generally do not. Four women have good reasons to ask for a line added or a sentence struck out. Each finds that the man who comes to the door deserves a fuller answer than anything she would put into print.
Fannie asks the scribe to leave her name out on Friday. Aaron assumes she is ashamed to be seen visiting his family. She would like one visit to her ailing aunt before half the district turns up with plans for her future. The free companion novella is A Line About the First Snow.
A snowfall brings the first two correspondents together. Later letters change a return visit, a young family’s welcome, a widow’s private choice and the meaning of reading aloud to somebody you love.
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Miriam writes three lines about the first snow and none about Reuben shovelling her path. He thinks she has overlooked him. She has noticed him so particularly that writing his name feels like a declaration.
Fannie asks the scribe to leave her name out on Friday. Aaron assumes she is ashamed to be seen visiting his family. She would like one visit to her ailing aunt before half the district turns up with plans for her future.
The newspaper puts word of the twins beside a report of heavy rain. Isaac brings Lena dry kindling and learns she has not eaten a warm meal since Tuesday. The thing she likes best about his visit is that he asks about her book before asking about the babies.
Sarah writes a piece of happy news in pencil, then rubs it out before taking the sheet to the scribe. Amos sees only the indentation of his own first name. He has been hoping for an invitation and would hate to mistake it for gossip.
Samuel asks Verna to read the community news to his father. She notices the old man can read his own mail perfectly well. Every Friday Samuel has fresh water for her horse and the same hopeful expression.
The new scribe explains her permission rule to a young visitor. In Book 1 a man asks why the visitor wants her name left out.
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