Mary Emma & Company

Author: Ralph Moody

Language: English

Publisher: Bison Books

Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.55 x 8 inches

ISBN-10: 803282117

ISBN-13: 978-0803282117

Publication Date: February 1, 1994

Print Length: 235 pages

Description: The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, a widowed mother of six, takes her family east in 1912 to start a new life. Her son Ralph, then thirteen, recounts their survival through the first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Despite financial and environmental challenges, faith and resourcefulness guide them. “Mother” in Little Britches and Man of the Family is fully realized as a character here, while Ralph, now no longer called “Little Britches,” comes into his own. The family’s encounters with authority and their struggles with broken furnaces during winter vividly depict a rich and warm family life.

Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that began in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, along with The Fields of Home, where Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather’s farm in Maine.