The quickening

"With the Great Depression looming, neighbors Enidina Current and Mary Morrow befriend each other despite their opposite opinions on farming life in the Midwest. Even with their vastly different lives, the two farmers' wives come to rely on one another."@en
"Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, but for the deeply religious Mary, farming is at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of a local preacher ..."@en
"Enidina and Mary live on neighboring farms in the hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to Eddie, but for the deeply religious Mary, farming is at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Mary befriends Eddie, and their relationship will prove as rugged as the ground they walk on. Despite having little in common, Eddie and Mary need one another for survival and companionship. But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threatens to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well."@en