Fiction. Women's Studies. 1903: a Mennonite woman gives birth to a daughter named Agnes. The child bears a birthmark known in Low German as Tieja Kjoaw, the Tiger's Scar. The mark portends greatness or tragedy. Agnes becomes the matriarch of a family struggling for greatness: her husband shaves his entire body to win God's favor; a tornado carries her daughter away on a clear winter day; convinced he is a modern Moses, her son frees a truckload of cattle; her granddaughter butchers a cat to save her marriage; a tiger residing in her daughter's backyard claims to be the love of Agnes' life.

Shaken in the Water

Literature & Fiction

Penner, Jessica Dawn

Contemporary

Foxhead Books

Just outside the tiny Kansas town of Ulysses in 1903, a Mennonite woman gives birth to Agnes, a girl bearing a birthmark known as a Tieja Kjoaw--Tiger Scar. In the Molotschna Colony in the Ukraine, such a mark was said to herald either greatness or tragedy.  Over three generations, Agnes' family struggles for greatness. Her husband shaves his entire body in order to win back God's favor. A daughter says she was carried into the eye of a tornado on a clear winter's day. A son frees a truckload of cattle in an attempt to be a modern Moses. A granddaughter butchers a cat to save her marriage. A white tiger residing in her daughter's backyard claims to be Nora, the love of Agnes' life.

Literary

WorkPlay Publishing

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Shaken in the Water

Shaken in the Water