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'Now this just isn’t- Mrs. Klein you don’t- youcan’t. I know you love it here butyou’re not being clear. I mean with thedeath and all, and the little ones. Butthink about it. Think of thenumbers.' He pointed at her brownaccount book and wearily took off his glasses. 'Your family is just scratching, just scratching along. The families before you had the sametroubles. They were hard workers too,but the land isn’t rich, not like what’s surrounding you: too many rocks, toosteep of a grade. I may not own thisplace but I reckon I’ve worked here longer than anybody else has, probablysince the Indians gave it up. I sayyou’ve had bum luck in picking your business. And now without a man--'It is turn of the century America in Upstate NewYork. In the fertile lands of theregion a new widow with three young children must run their farm alone, defyingsexual expectations of the time. Fromthis seed the Klein family’s story branches into a journey of growth thattouches, sometimes violently, their community, with its servants, wealthylandowners, and farmers, eventually bringing them into the larger world of thecity with its tenement slums, and mansions, immigrants, and laborers. The Runaway is a tightly knit study of atime when economic, racial, and sexual mores experienced a radical revolution,as well as a moving piece on human relations, as illuminating to the presentday as it is to the past.
