JEREMIAH'S GOD

About the Book

Widower Jeremiah Guttermann marries a young Irish woman and brings her to his Midwest farm. She brings with her a culture of superstition. Jeremiah tires of these tales, but soon begins to believe they are harmful to his two children. He rails against them but Jeremiah has his own spiritual hang-up, his loyalty to the folklore of an ages-old brotherhood. He ignores the dark side of this folklore and thus is unable to protect his children from great harm, tragedy that reaches into the second and third generation of Jeremiah's family.

About the Author

Estella Slattery was born the year of the World War I armistice and has lived in the same South Dakota county most of her life. She earned two degrees from the University of South Dakota, became an English teacher, and married a teacher and former football hero. She is the mother of six living children and the proud grandmother of thirteen. The roles of mother, grandmother, and life-long Roman Catholic have afforded her many interesting challenges and inspired her writing.