Husks

"Husks" is a novel set in the American countryside, looking at the aspirations of the American Upper middle class society in the nineteenth century in a humorous way. The Hunt family live a comfortable, and some may say an opulent lifestyle thanks to Mr. Hunt's salary received as cashier of a prominent city bank, an income sufficient to support them in modest elegance, but which few besides Mrs. Hunt could have stretched to cover the expense of their ostensible style of living. The five children seem to be getting along well except for Sarah, their second born daughter who seems to be withdrawn. Matters come to a head when she gives away some family possessions to a starving orphan, much to the chagrin of her mother…