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Everything She Didn’t Say
First published 2018
Carrie Strahorn’s published memoir celebrated twenty-five years of travel with her husband Robert, a railroad promoter who helped advertise and develop the American West. The novel imagines a private account written later, in which Carrie records the loneliness, compromise and frustration left outside the public story.
Her rootless life reveals how ambition can absorb a marriage and how wealth fails to prevent emotional neglect. Christian faith helps Carrie recover a sense of God-given worth apart from her husband’s projects, allowing her to reinterpret pioneering not only as geographic movement but as the difficult creation of an inner home.
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