He feels unequipped to handle the growing of crops, the milking of cows, and the raising of cattle. Rosanna focuses on baby Frank, while Walter worries about whether he has what it takes to become a successful farmer. Now, Walter and Rosanna Langdon struggle to make ends meet.
Eventually, they married in the local Methodist church. Despite her freethinking ways and her exotic qualities, Rosanna was drawn to Walter just as much as he was to her. For the rest of her life, Rosanna would question her religion and feel pulled between the dictates of her faith, the reason of her mind, and the demands of her heart.
She openly questioned some of the tenets of her faith, such as the belief that innocent, unbaptized babies go to hell. Though raised Catholic, Rosanna thought for herself, rebelled against authority, and spoke her mind. With her long blond hair and an infectious smile, Rosanna stood out among the empty skies, wide-open cornfields, and often-numbing sameness of this small Iowa town. She provided a welcome distraction for Walter, who wasn't yet ready to fully return to farm life. Upon his return to the States and to his Iowa farmstead, he met a young German immigrant, Rosanna Vogel. Walter had been called up to serve in the First World War, an experience that changed him in some fundamental ways. At home is his wife, Rosanna, and their newborn son, Frank. Walter is on the verge of his twenty-fifth birthday. Whether this is an omen of some kind, Walter cannot say he promptly forgets why he even came out to the creek-side in the first place. In a moment of awe, Walter watches the owl streak across the silver-white sky, first enchanted by its majesty, then impressed by its stealth as it swoops down and scoops up a rabbit. Just as he is about to ensure the fence's stability, an owl soars out of a nearby tree. The novel opens in the winter of 1920, as Walter Langdon checks the fence along the creek of his family's property. An epic family saga of hard existences and changing times, it is an intimate character study of the various people and personalities that populate this specific midwestern clan.
The first novel in her The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Jane Smiley’s Some Luck (2014) is the story of three generations in the lives of an Iowa farm family, the Langdons.
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