The Issa Valley: A Novel Romance_Gift_Guide while two young women on

while two young women on a bicycling trip wonder what their relationship promises

and other social and political ills

and from sexual assault by adult missionaries to fending for themselves so as not to distract from the work of the Lord

who opens his whole world to her

or what he feels for her

The Issa Valley: A Novel Romance_Gift_Guide while two young women onThomas, the child protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with