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    Mary's Place
    A Novel

    Charlotte Hinger (Author)

    9781496238054

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2024

    330 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.506 kg

    "Powerful, touching and real, Mary's Place is a deeply woven understanding of the human spirit, its strength and its will to survive."-Milana Marsenich, Roundup Magazine
    “A fresh look at the Wild West-1980s style-pitting a Kansas farming family against bankers, weather, governmental bureaucracy, the FDIC, and each other. Charlotte Hinger writes with passion and authority, telling a poignant story that is unpredictable, powerful, and terribly real.”-Johnny D. Boggs, nine-time Spur Award–winning author
    “Mary’s Place is a riveting, powerful novel, confidently twisty, that pits a beleaguered old banker against his lifelong friend.”-Kathleen O’Neal Gear, New York Times best-selling author of The Ice Orphan
    “I was caught up with the real and powerful characters in Mary’s Place and teared up at threats they might lose their farm. Then teared up again when something right and wonderful took place. I loved this book.”-Irene Bennett Brown, award-winning author of the Nickel Hill series
    “What happens when a national farm crisis falls on the heads of a troubled farm family? As told in this beautifully crafted, compelling novel, the calamity produces panic, hostility, self-doubt, and betrayal, but it also spawns startling outbursts of courage, self-sacrifice, and grit. . . . Charlotte Hinger gives us a universal tale of human frailty and the struggle for virtue contained within a single family’s fight to survive.”-Richard Edwards, coauthor of The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration

    Finalist for the 2025 Spur Award 

    Iron and Mary Barrett’s farming family is rural royalty, their success symbolized by a magnificent three-story house, Mary’s Place. Years in the building, the house is a testament to Mary’s grit and organizational abilities. But when bank examiners apply new ratings for agricultural loans in the 1980s, the family’s belief that its prosperity is a natural outcome of hard work is sent reeling.

    Bank president J.C. Espy had never done anything crooked in his life until the FDIC changed the rules for agricultural loans. After becoming desperate to save his hundred-year-old bank, he worries that his resulting choice will cause his friend Iron to lose his land. Frantically J.C. works to convince Iron he will lose everything if he doesn’t comply with the new standards. In the meantime, both Iron and J.C. must negotiate with sons who have contempt for their fathers’ old-fashioned values. While Iron agonizes, Mary maneuvers to keep the family together and save the farm.

    Mary’s Place is an unforgettable tribute to the rural families who weathered one of the worst agricultural disasters in American history.

    Prologue
    1. Chapter One
    2. Chapter Two
    3. Chapter Three
    4. Chapter Four
    5. Chapter Five
    6. Chapter Six
    7. Chapter Seven
    8. Chapter Eight
    9. Chapter Nine
    10. Chapter Ten
    11. Chapter Eleven
    12. Chapter Twelve
    13. Chapter Thirteen
    14. Chapter Fourteen
    15. Chapter Fifteen
    16. Chapter Sixteen
    17. Chapter Seventeen
    18. Chapter Eighteen
    19. Chapter Nineteen
    20. Chapter Twenty
    21. Chapter Twenty-One
    22. Chapter Twenty-Two
    23. Chapter Twenty-Three
    24. Chapter Twenty-Four
    25. Chapter Twenty-Five
    26. Chapter Twenty-Six
    27. Chapter Twenty-Seven
    28. Chapter Twenty-Eight
    29. Chapter Twenty-Nine
    30. Chapter Thirty
    31. Chapter Thirty-One
    32. Chapter Thirty-Two
    33. Chapter Thirty-Three
    34. Chapter Thirty-Four
    35. Chapter Thirty-Five
    36. Chapter Thirty-Six
    37. Chapter Thirty-Seven
    38. Chapter Thirty-Eight
    Acknowledgments

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