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Adrienne Morris
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Skills: Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview
Adrienne Morris is the author of By the Shores of Solon Pond and The Tenafly Road Series. The House on Tenafly Road was featured as a Historical Novel Society “Editors’ Choice” book and “Notable Book of the Year.”
Adrienne is a huge fan of classic literary fiction. Her goal is to transport you back in time with rich, complex stories about characters you will never forget.
When not writing novels, Adrienne spends her time riding her horse, Almanzo Wilder, and shepherding sheep on her small family farm in upstate New York.
Adrienne Morris' books
By the Shores of Solon Pond
A Journey from Boyhood Innocence to War-Weary Self-Understanding and Hope
An epic tale of heroism, sacrifice, and family devotion
Farm boy Waldo Potter strives to save his father's impoverished upstate New York acreage as drums of war beat. When his Uncle Charles takes him under his wing, Waldo must navigate family resentments and tragic twists of fate at home and at the seat of war. By the Shores of Solon Pond captures the joys and hardships of rural life and is a tribute to America's rural heritage, but, most of all, it is a tribute to one young man's sacrificial love for his family.
From the outset, Waldo suffers, under the yoke of his sad family, a kind of entrapment in a life of struggle and impossible challenges, caused mainly by the sloth of Waldo's father. Of all the farms in the vicinity, his is the saddest and least productive even though he has three sons and a devoted wife.
After many failures and humiliations, Waldo is quick to join the army to fight in the Civil War, getting a shocking view of the wider world and a new perspective on his family and their situation in this coming-of-age story.