An Unseemly Wife

"E.B. Moore's AN UNSEEMLY WIFE is absolutely top-notch historical fiction, illuminating as if with rays of sun an American landscape as cruel as it is lush, as harsh as it is hopeful. This story of Ruth and her Amish family's westward migration is an emigrant tale with a twist that will wring your heart--you'll never, ever forget it. I couldn't look away from this novel, and its characters will live with me always. An absolutely beautiful, harrowing book."

"In An Unseemly Wife, E.B. Moore walks the rare tightrope of artistry, writing this harrowing and gripping novel with exquisite care and detail, putting into sharp relief the story of an Amish family crossing the country by wagon."

"An Unseemly Wife is one of those rare novels of beauty and darkness, transfixing us with a place few can imagine and a narrator as fierce as she is true. Ruth's journey may emerge from another century, but her failures in faith and love are our own--as are her triumphs. E.B. Moore creates a world with the slightest strokes of a pen, and the story's ghosts will remain with you long after you close the book."