The first chapter in the book is one January day 30 years ago, the little town of Hanover anchored on a windy Nebraska table land was trying not to be blown away. It is 16 years since John Bergson died and his wife now lies beside him and beside him and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams across the wheat fields. And so then we get kind of an evolution of where all these characters are. A meal went off to college. Alexander is really good at farms. Carl comes back from the big city. He is now on his way to Alaska to do some prospecting because he didn't like his life in the bigCity. When he has a hookup