Mountain Solo
In Jeanette Ingold's Mountain Solo, she artfully holds three plots together: Tess, the 16 year old violin prodigy who has returned to her father in Montana after a disastrous debut concert; Frederick, the homesteader who lives in Montana in the 1800's; and Tessie: the story of Tess as a young girl.
The story begins describing Tess's concert in Germany. Soon after, full of chagrin, she returns to her father and his remarried family in Montana. S...