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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land

    By Will Weaver

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    A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted from the paperback original, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (Borealis Books, 2006), by Will Weaver.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMinnesota Historical Society Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9780873518802
    A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land
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    Will Weaver

    Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends.

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      Book preview

      A Gravestone Made of Wheat - Will Weaver

      A GRAVESTONE MADE OF WHEAT

      The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land

      with New Reader’s Guide

      Will Weaver

      An MHS Express e-short, excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories by Will Weaver

      (Borealis Books, 2006)

      mhsexplogoprime.jpg

      © 2012 by Will Weaver. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, write to the Minnesota Historical Society Press, 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul, MN 55102-1906.

      This e-short is excerpted from Will Weaver, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2006).

      www.mhspress.org

      The Minnesota Historical Society Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      International Standard Book Number

      ISBN: 978-0-87351-880-2 (e-book)

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      A version of this story first appeared in Prairie Schooner (1982).

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      A Gravestone Made of Wheat

      A Gravestone Made of Wheat

      You can’t bury your wife here on the farm, the sheriff said. That’s the law.

      Olaf Torvik looked up from his chair by the coffin; he did not understand what the sheriff was saying. And why was the sheriff still here, anyway? The funeral was over. They were ready for the burial—a family burial. There should be only Torviks in the living room.

      Do you understand what he’s saying, Dad? Einar said.

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