Come to Minneapolis with Me

Farewell Bittersweet

~ A Work of Historical Fiction

In 1932, on a train ride to Minneapolis, 22-year-old Opal Bauer’s identical twin sister, Stella, divulged to her a raft of untold events which had, until then, been fiercely guarded. Though not prepared, Opal was let in on some surprisingly hard, adult hidden truths about life, death, crime, love and intimacy.

Having waited fitfully for life to begin, Opal, an aspiring writer, found her existence on the farm to be mind-numbingly dull. That is until the week a transient preacher rolled into Bittersweet County, Minnesota, during a heat wave, and a troupe of oddities set up camp in the family’s alfalfa field.

Brother Goldlove was looking for someone to blame for the empty collection baskets at his tent revivals, and he set the troupe in his sight. But their battle, which played out in public, was not even the most interesting development that summer.

Once Stella let the cat out of the bag, Opal would never look at her sister, or life in Bittersweet County, in the same way again.

*Strong female characters and references to adult matters.