![]() Schumm's book will be an inspiration to every reader. A special part of that love song is the portrait of her grandmother, Alfreda, a farm girl from the Midwest who grows in strength and courage through her many years of service for God and the people in China. Through her recreation, Schumm skillfully composes a love song about her family, blending surviving materials and amazing stories handed down through the years. After all the research I had done on Swedish Lutheran work in China, I believe I would have recognized any deviation from historical accuracy. ![]() Schumm's technique is called historical fiction, but one never gets the feeling that she is fabricating any of the information about her relatives. She fleshes out her ancestors' lives and makes them multidimensional. Katherine Edwins Schumm comes from a refreshingly different direction with such material. I had seen their names countless times in diaries, letters, and assorted (often rather dry) mission reports. Through my study, I was well aware of the the significance of the Edwins family, pioneer Lutheran missionaries in the central part of China. I stumbled upon this fascinating book as I was doing research on a China missionary from my home town who first went abroad in 1926. ![]()
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