The Chance of a Sparrow

Gracie Evans is tired of retirement at the Moser Mansion For Women Rest Home in Locked Rock, Iowa. She has the worse case of spring fever you ever saw. So she wishes she could go back to the farm just for a short time. She gets her wish when the renter asks her to farm set while he takes his wife and daughter to visit a relative near Ottumwa. A month on the farm sounded like just what Gracie needed to perk her up. She plans to turn back the clock by going fishing in the Iowa river and picking wild strawberries. What wasn't in the plan was the murder of a neighbor, roaming Indians in her timber, someone taking a shot at her when she's mushroom hunting, and little things like a goat that doesn't cooperate at milking time, getting locked in the outhouse and an old boyfriend that shows up too often to suit Gracie. Before her stay is over, Gracie is thinking she's going to be more careful what she wishes for.