Bøker av Maureen Armstrong

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher's daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

Meet Carole and Sylvii; together they research their own new fresh truths. Carole, a recent widow, suffers financial and personal family betrayals with her husband's death. Sylvii, their suburban friend, stays beside Carole and assists with reporting to the police and agencies. Traveling interstate Carole returns to familiar places to replenish her optimism, and while keeping in touch with Sylvii defines themselves with loyalty. News of her friend's husband's death and experiences with their friends' children become known to Sylvii, who brings Carole's details to others throughout Missouri. Carole's nightmare awaits in her return to her native state, Nebraska, and for memories of family, past hopes and her future. Finding abandoned acreage creates an opportunity for Carole with previous financial planning. Her venture onto her new land Carole referred to as the Olde Homestead, while clearing up this abandoned property Carole writes in her diary of details for July's Dream, and Carole begins to design with planning to create her own future.