![]() Homesick for her family and demoralized by the rigors of pioneering, Mama slips into one of her ""spells,"" and these become more frequent and more severe as the cataclysmic summer unfolds. For Mem, whose family moved from Connecticut the year before, the day is even more momentous: during the sudden blizzard her Mama gives birth to a baby girl then slides into a terrible depression. ![]() As 12-year-old Mem, the narrator, recounts, June 6, 1816, is a date ""nobody in the Genesee Country of New York will ever forget."" The day brings the first of a number of freak snowstorms and late-season frosts that kill the crops and threaten survival. ![]() ![]() Even better than its predecessor, Journey to Nowhere, this sequel gets its title and some of its exceptional historical color from the dire weather conditions that afflicted New England and New York in the summer of 1816. ![]()
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