Publisher's Synopsis
The third novel in a trilogy, Flesh on the Bone picks up the story of the married children of the first two books. Jake and Raisa Kessel emigrated with their respective parents as seven and eight-year-old children in 1907. Their immigrant parents came to this country with only the "flesh on their bones." They struggled to make their own way even with all America had to offer. Now, Jake and Raisa are hungry for new horizons and head east to Michigan during the Roaring Twenties. It doesn't take long to run headlong into the Great Depression, mounting debt and soup lines. Jake has to make fast money to get his family. out of Michigan and back to Wyoming.
