Marchlands

MARCHLANDS is the story of Sophie, a girl of sixteen living on a sheep ranch in Wyoming who is pregnant to one of the family's hired farmhands. The novel is set during the Vietnam War, which is responsible for the absence of Sophie's brother, Clements. Sophie's father is also absent, although voluntarily so. He left his wife and family years before, and has been virtually unreachable, living in cabins somewhere in the woods of Colorado.

Without any real friends to call her own, Sophie finds comfort and friendship with her horse, Pablo. As her pregnancy becomes apparent her relationship with her mother disintegrates and Sophie begins her search for her father and the facts about her life that might make sense of what her family has become.