The Fence My Father Built

The Fence My Father Built
Linda Clare
Paperback, 352 pp., $13.99
Abingdon Press (October 2009)

When Muri Pond hauls her kids to Murkee, Oregon, where her father lived and died, she’s confronted by a neighbor’s harassment over water rights and her father’s legacy: a fence made from old oven doors. Appalled, Muri’s daughter runs away to the drug-infested streets of Seattle. Muri searches for her daughter and for something to believe in, all the while trying to save her inheritance from her conniving neighbor. Along with her Aunt Lutie and the Red Rock Tabernacle Ladies, Muri must rediscover the faith her alcoholic dad never abandoned in order to reclaim her own spiritual path.