Novelist explores her family history

Author — Scottish history provides backdrop for tale of loss, survival in ‘One Handful of Earth’

  • By: David Sale 
  • Published: 3/31/2010 12:00:00 PM
  • Last Updated: 3/31/2010 4:10:45 PM
Photo By: Gary AllenA time of struggle —
McMinnville author Ellie Gunn’s set her first novel, “One Handful of Earth,” in 19th century Scotland.
   In the early 1800s, economic change and religious and political rivalry combined to displace hundreds of thousands of Scottish people.



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