

Meanwhile, another teacher helps a pregnant teen disowned by her mother find love and acceptance in two hilariously well-intentioned elderly brothers.

His children bake cookies, ride horses, and run a paper route, but at the same time they almost consciously seek out a cool, hardened, cowboy sense of maturity. Tom Guthrie is a high-school teacher left raising two young sons after his depressed and disappointed wife moves to the city.

Plainsong is set in Holt, Colorado, a rural community well outside Denver the setting is timeless, with only the occasional, fleeting reference to VCRs or pop culture indicating that the book takes place closer to "now" than "then."
