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Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel son and later, as a widow, took over the business. Sara's struggle against the intolerance and hypocrisy of family and friends who disapproved of a woman running a brewery and opening a beer garden makes her a standout among the characters of Mildred Walker. The Brewers' Big Horses recreates the manners and traditions of Germans in America as Prohibition gets up steam.
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Mark Elliott
reviewed The Brewer's Big Horses on February 02, 2018
The Brewer's Big Horses
This Mildred Walker novel spans from 1882 to 1918 and it moves right along. There are frequent big jumps in time between one chapter and the next. It takes place in Armitage City, Michigan, a town built on the logging industry.....where the respectable Bolster family with four daughters lives on the wealthy west side of town. Acceptable behavior is very proscribed among their society and the subject of class permeates this novel. (The unusual name of the mother is Corona!) On the other side of town live the German immigrants/foreigners who are more recent US citizens.
Youngest daughter Sara has a mind of her own, though, and she ventures out of the comfortable circumscribed existence in which she has been raised. This is her story of crossing the class line and creating an alternate kind of respectable life in this city.
The story is told in a linear straight forward manner which reads easily. It bumps into the First World War and the early Prohibition Movement. And there is a German brewery in the story....thus the "Brewer's Big Horses". I think Mildred Walker was trying to say something big in this novel about the American people and immigrants in the melting pot which is our big complex country. She wants the reader to broaden their view and open their heart to all the color that is our nation.
Quite an ambitious novel. An enjoyable read.
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