Chasing After the Wind Rimer L. a.
Chasing After the Wind Rimer L. a. Like most 18-year-old girls, Eden Owens has dreams for her future. She often sits in the dismal bedroom she shares with her younger sister, Abby, and prays for a…
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Chasing After the Wind Rimer L. a.
Like most 18-year-old girls, Eden Owens has dreams for her future. She often sits in the dismal bedroom she shares with her younger sister, Abby, and prays for a miracle. But she also knows her chances of achieving her goals are overshadowed by her environment.
When she approaches her brutish father, Clem, and nervously asks him if he has set aside money for her to go to college, her father laughs in her face. More than anything else, Eden desperately wants a college education. Eden knew then and there that she had no choice but to resume her miserable life in the slums of Maramount, Illinois.But fate has other plans for Eden. Mrs.
Omaha, her favorite teacher, works behind the scenes with Professor Altgeld, a poet laureate, to include Eden on the meritorious Studies Abroad cruise program. As Eden embers upon a study voyage around the world, her nautical adventure opens her eyes to