@article{716935,
      recid = {716935},
      author = {Ansay, A. Manette.},
      title = {Vinegar Hill /},
      publisher = {Avon Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {viii, 240 pages ;},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {In her debut novel, Manette Ansay writes of one woman's  gradual realization that in order to reenvision her life  she must break all the rules. It is 1972 and Ellen Grier  finds herself back in the Midwestern hometown she thought  she had escaped for good. Worse yet, she and her family  have had to move in with her in-laws: narrow-minded,  eccentric people who are as tough as the farm lives they  have endured. Devout Catholics, they inhabit a world "as  rigid, as precise as a church," and Ellen struggles to live  by their motto: "A place for everything; everything in its  place." But there is no place for Ellen -- fresh, funny,  bright with passion -- in a house filled with the dust of  routine and the ritual of prayer, the lingering bitterness  of her in-laws' loveless marriage. She tries to be the  model woman everyone expects her to be -- teaching at the  Catholic school, coaxing her traveling-salesman husband  through his increasingly irrational moods, caring for his  aging parents -- but Ellen's hopes for her family's future  collide with life in this bizarre household, and she  worries over her wryly observant adolescent daughter and  her timid young son. Encouraged by her friend Barb, a woman  ostracized for being "modern" and "wild," Ellen begins to  consider her own desires and dreams as well. Surrounded by  the family's obsession with an exacting, angry God and the  disquieting ghosts of the past, Ellen searches for a way to  satisfy the demands of this rural community and its  traditions until, at last, she discovers the family's  darkest secret, one that frees her and changes her life  forever.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716935},
}