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    The Shrouding Woman

    By Loretta Ellsworth

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    The moving story of a young girl's struggle to face her mother's death.

    "She traveled to our small white house near the Iowa border on a buckboard, her green bag caked with the dusty road . . . I knew that she was called "the Shrouding Woman" because I'd heard Papa use those words to describe her. I didn't know what it meant but I knew it had something to do with death."

    It was once common practice for small towns to have a shrouding woman to help put their dead to rest. Still, when eleven-year-old Evie's Aunt Flo-herself a shrouding woman-comes to town, Evie knows little of a shrouding woman's ways and wants nothing to do with this aunt of hers, especially after her own mother's recent death. But as this mysterious woman slowly makes her way into Evie's life, her strong and sensitive presence brings far more than signs of death to a grieving girl's home.

    Set in the mid-1800s, this beautifully written story, centered on the little-known practice of shrouding, touches on death and healing with sensitivity and quiet dignity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 12, 2007
    ISBN9781429932462
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    The Shrouding Woman
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    Loretta Ellsworth

    Loretta Ellsworth grew up in Mason City, IA. A former teacher and a graduate of Hamline University with a Master’s Degree in Writing for Children, she is the award-winning author of several young adult novels. She has four children and six grandchildren and lives in Lakeville, MN. Stars Over Clear Lake is her first novel for adults.

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    • 3/5
      This book captures the resentment, curiosity, and sorrow of the young protagonist, Evie feels when her mother dies and Aunt Flo comes to take care of the family. Aunt Flo is very different from her mother and very different from everyone else too because she is a "Shrouding woman;" the person who prepares bodies for burial by washing it with herbs and oils, dressing it weighing down the eye lids and generally helping the family say good bye with dignity.