Icky Bean Winter

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Icky Bean Winter 

By Lorna Kerin Beall

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the brutal winter of 1919, twelve-year-old Kata struggles to keep her Finnish-American family alive on a lonely South Dakota homestead after her father and older brother leave to work in a far-away copper mine.

Haunted by her “Worst Mistake Ever,” Kata is determined to prove she has the sisu-the courage and grit-her father doubts she possesses.

But when hunger, a timber wolf, and crushing hardship threaten everything her family has worked so hard to create, Kata must discover whether she’s brave enough to help her family take root in its beautiful, sometimes brutal home.

Author Lorna Kerin Beall began her writing career by publishing inspirational articles and short stories about the amazing children she taught who had developmental and intellectual disabilities. She co-authored a short screenplay that won first place in the children’s category at two international film festivals.
Icky Bean Winter is her second novel. Her first, My Sisu Summer, is loosely based on her own experience being raised by a Finnish grandmother. She is passionate about her writing, her family, and her faith.