By Clare Vanderpool.
The story which moves back and forth between 1918 and 1936 is narrated by a 12 year old girl living in 1936. It covers many historical happenings such as The Prohibition, The Great Depression, World War One, Spanish Influenza, orphans, and immigration. Abeline Tucker who drifted with her father from one place to the next is left to live in Manifest, a small town in Kansas where he once lived. Abeline unearths the past lives of the town inhabitants from old letters, old articles and from the talk of some town folks. Abeline discovers the hardships faced by the immigrants in 1918 as they coped with tough conditions in the mines, prejudice against foreigners, the Influenza, World War I and its trenches, bootlegging, and more. Abeline who is trying to find out about her father’s impact on the little town, realizes in the end, that the town itself that had an effect on him. At last, she recognizes her love for the people there and that she has finally found a home in Manifest.
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