A pastor took her in, and in that house, she discovered a box of mementos and letters stashed away under a floorboard. She arrived there to find that it was run-down and greatly affected by the Great Depression. Her father sent her to a small town called Manifest, Kansas while he worked a railroad job somewhere else. The main character in the book is Abilene Tucker, a nice, adventurous girl from 1936. And as Manifest’s secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. It seems that Manifest’s history is full of colorful and shadowy characters-and long-held secrets. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to “Leave Well Enough Alone.”Ībilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it’s just a dried-up, worn-out old town. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest-A Town with a rich past and a bright future.Ībilene Tucker feels abandoned. The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby.
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