Character-driven historical and contemporary fiction — the kind of book a circle of friends reads together and talks about long after the last page.
A novelist who spent thirty years as a counselor, Ceone Fenn writes the inner lives of ordinary people with rare tenderness and depth.
Katerina Danek trades her life in L'viv for an arranged marriage on the 1925 Saskatchewan prairie — and a respected husband whose private truth endangers her, and the stepson she's come to love.
★★★★★ 4.56 Goodreads
When her husband — a celebrated college coach — is arrested for crimes at his lakefront camp, Luella Laurent must weather a town's judgment, a family's fracture, and the long work of reclaiming a life worth living.
★★★★ 4.27 Goodreads
“Superbly written and spellbinding. Ceone Fenn has created a memorable character, showing us how to reclaim a life worth living.” Christine DeSmet · award-winning author & UW–Madison writing faculty
Discussion questions written for the themes her counseling years made her fluent in — resilience, betrayal, the quiet negotiations of family. On-page or printable for your meeting.