Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in her native Sweden, life there is different for young Inga Linberg. With her parents' blessing, she has taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young orphaned nieces. He is an unhappy man, but loyal, hardworking and honorable - also quite handsome, judging by Inga's beautiful, flirtatious younger sisters. Now Inga, too, longs to be seen as beautiful ...
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Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in her native Sweden, life there is different for young Inga Linberg. With her parents' blessing, she has taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young orphaned nieces. He is an unhappy man, but loyal, hardworking and honorable - also quite handsome, judging by Inga's beautiful, flirtatious younger sisters. Now Inga, too, longs to be seen as beautiful ...
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This was the second book in the Coming to America series. This follows the eldest of five daughters from a Swedish family in Iowa. Inga doesn't feel she is pretty like her sisters. She accepts a job caring for an ill woman and her two grandchildren. When the woman dies, Inga agrees to a marriage of convenience with the girls uncle, Dirk. Gradually, they fall in love in spite of life's hardships, and they learn to build a new family. They both learn to accept things about themselves and their circumstances, even if they ae not what they would have chosen for themselves. Very sweet.
