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CurrentCatherine: Old World Girl with New World Dreams. How many readers live with unlived dreams? How many enjoy stories with main characters who nurture their dreams against all odds, until God or fate allows them to burst beautifully into life? This is a novel for those readers. Catherine is a Polish peasant girl in the early 1900s, who dreams of becoming an artist, and when she falls in love with Józef who creates beautiful jewelry she imagines a perfect future opening. But the plans others force upon her, along with Józef’s disappearance - and probable death - on the war front, send her life skidding in a direction she must now tolerate but not live with all her heart. Sold as a “bride” to a crude lout of a man, shipped off to a mountain town in backwoods America, Catherine faces and works through all the cold winds of bad chance and decisions made to thwart her… and in the end, her fears and doubts are overcome with faith and a strong spirit.