An Absence So Great

An Absence So Great
Jane Kirkpatrick
Paperback, 400 pp., $14.99
WaterBrook Press (March 16, 2010)

Growing in confidence as a photographer, 18-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s life is at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her, she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for owners who have fallen ill with mercury poisoning. Jessie gains footing in her dream to one day operate her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can’t keep painful memories from seeping into her heart when the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.