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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 258 pages. Ex-library.The author describes the small Iowa farming community of her youth, where her debt-ridden father deserted her mother in the early forties, and explores her p arents' lives in the light of her own experiences Editorial Reviews From Publi shers Weekly Scot (Notes from Nepal) evokes a vivid sense of place in this haunt ing memoir set on the Iowa prairie. She returned to her childhood home, located in the Presbyterian farming community of Scotch Grove, to understand her mother better. When Scot was a baby and her brother only two, her father deserted his w ife for another woman after he had mortgaged her farm and left her saddled with debt, committing suicide a few years later. An old trunk filled with family pict ures, letters and other memorabilia left to her by her mother stimulated the aut hor to investigate the reasons for her mother's regard for her father and her la ck of bitterness while Scot was growing up. Through visits to family members and research into the area's history, she came away with a better understanding of her father's good qualities and his inability to live up to his own expectations , as well as a respect for her mother's forgiveness and enduring love. 40,000 fi rst printing; author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In the 1940s, when Scot (The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Note s from Nepal, LJ 11/15/93) was a young girl in a small town in Iowa, her father abandoned the family, leaving behind a pile of debts for his devoted wife. It wa s not until the 1990s that Scot returned to her childhood home to investigate he r parents' bittersweet relationship and try to understand her mother's unabated love for a man who deserted her for another woman and who subsequently killed hi.…