f-Holes of MELANCHOLIA

Katya Sadilov is a former child prodigy violinist turned farmwife—a woman plonked into the wrong life in rural Saskatchewan. Her new husband, George, must instruct her in the most basic domestic skills—how to cook, work the stove, and milk the cow. Survival in this harsh world depends on know-how. Long before medical people coined the term Bipolar, Katya’s mania followed by melancholia, tortures her and rankles her husband. The tight-minded citizens in town shun her. The harsh prairie landscape