Bread Alone

Birth of a Nation

75 Birth of a Nation In the shadow of land deals a country was born and its child came to know respite, the good life. It spoiled him ever after— the smallest woe would grow to seem a calamity. But some nations can look into the face of calamity and still live twice as nice. In the shadow of land deals an heirloom chest full of wrinkled lace and crinoline and blood from a century—the world never looked at too closely never questioned enough. ...