![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He receives a response from a woman in Minnesota who claims that she “can’t cook but doesn’t bite,” which intrigues Oliver and the boys, who are dubious that this woman cannot cook. Quickly realizing that this is too much for all of them, Oliver decides to advertise for a housekeeper. Together, they are struggling to maintain the household in the absence of their wife and mother and to keep up with the chores, which include cooking, housekeeping, attending to the farm and going to school. The three boys, Paul, Damon, and Tobey, live with their recently widowed father, Oliver. In seventh grade, Paul attends the same school as his two younger brothers. As he struggles with the decisions he must make, Paul recalls his childhood and the one-room schoolhouse he attended in Marias Coulee, Montana in the fall of 1909. In the present day, Paul, the Montana state superintendent of schools, has been tasked with deciding the fate of the state's last rural schools. In The Whistling Season, Doig captures the life of early western settlers in Montana. The Whistling Season is a novel by American author and novelist Ivan Doig, who was widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West. ![]()
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