Terri Morrison Kaiser

Like wildflower seeds drifting on the breeze, Daisy and Willa Grace leave their northern Wisconsin farm in 1933 for Depression-era Chicago, their cheap brown suitcases packed with hopes for the future and the promise of a better life for their family. The death of a younger brother haunts them both in different ways. Daisy is fiercely devoted to her family and vows to return as soon as she can. Surely, marriage and babies will wait for her return.
Willa Grace longs for new places and life beyond Emery Township. For her, the farm represents nothing but backbreaking work and the tragedy she can't outrun, despite the young man who professes his love for her. Wildflowers is a coming-of-age story about the unbreakable bond of sisterhood when life's dreams are shattered, and there is no other recourse than to mine the depths of courage.