From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautifu...From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious norma joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art.