When a group of Kansas women start a Frauenverein--a benevolent society devoted to aiding widows and orphans--life changes for more than just the hurting people they seek to help. With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly whom their town's benevolence society should help first: quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Konrad Rempel, however, is adamant that he doesn't want help. ...
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When a group of Kansas women start a Frauenverein--a benevolent society devoted to aiding widows and orphans--life changes for more than just the hurting people they seek to help. With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly whom their town's benevolence society should help first: quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Konrad Rempel, however, is adamant that he doesn't want help. His boys are mischievous but good-hearted. And though Konrad may be struggling, he doesn't want anyone else sticking their nose in and telling him what his sons need. Or what he needs. For her part, the charity's founder Martina Krahn is relieved to have a reason to spend time outside her unhappy home. It even occurs to her that she may, through her work, encounter a boy in need of a family and so find a son for her husband since they have no children of their own. Augusta, Konrad, and Martina each have deep needs and desires, and each imagines how they should be met: by reaching out or by being left alone. But God, indeed, knows best. Will the competing agendas of Alexandertol's residents prevent them from receiving God's help? Or will the members of this small Mennonite community find the answers to their prayers in the very last place they expect--in one another?
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Set in 1897, The Tapestry of Grace is a multi-themed story following the lives of three Mennonite Church families. Augusta Dyck, is a widow with an eleven-year old daughter. She works as a teacher for the youngest grades in Alexandertol's school. Konrad Rempel is a widower with eight-year-old twin boys. Looking after them during the school harvest-time break while working in his blacksmith shop poses quite a challenge. Martina and Gerhard Krahn's marriage is in trouble, at least until Martina comes up with a plan that will impact the lives of each of these families. Their stories demonstrate the great importance of clear, honest communication, the importance of living in community, and that God can and often does use situations we may view as negative to bring good into someone's life. Kim Vogel Sawyer has developed characters in whom readers quickly become invested. She places them in realistic situations that bring about moral dilemmas. Readers will feel the tension created as characters wrestle with decisions which will be far reaching.
I highly recommend The Tapestry of Grace, and am grateful to have received a complimentary copy from WaterBrook via NetGalley without obligation. All opinions expressed here are my own.
