02279cam a2200373 i 4500 432329657 TxAuBib 20200820120000.0 190909s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019039005 9780310356738 0310356733 (OCoLC)1105710840 TxAuBib rda Irvin, Kelly, 2017 A long bridge home. A long bridge home / Kelly Irvin. [Grand Rapids, Michigan] : Zondervan, [2020] ℗2020. xiii, 321 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Amish of Big Sky Country ; 2 Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from the author's Over the line. When the Mast family is forced to evacuate their Montana home, Christine chooses not to move with her family to Kansas. Instead, she wants to stay closer to home and to her beau, Andy Lambright, who has yet to ask for her hand in marriage and who seems to be holding tightly to secrets from his past. Now, living with her aunt and uncle in St. Ignatius, Christine is on her own for the first time in her life. While working in her uncle’s store Christine meets Raymond Old Fox, and he introduces her to his rich native culture with strong ties to the earth and nature. Despite the warnings of her aunt and uncle, Christine is inexplicably drawn to Raymond, and her mind is opened to a history and heritage far different from her own. With her newly expanding horizons, Christine wonders if she can return to the domestic life that is expected of her. Her heart still longs to be with Andy, but she isn’t the same person she was before the fire, and she wonders if he can accept who she is becoming. Has too much distance grown between them? Or can they bridge the gap from past to present and find their way back together? 20200820. Interracial friendship Fiction. Kootenai Indians Fiction. Amish Fiction. Montana Fiction. Romance fiction. Religious fiction. Amish of Big Sky Country ; 2.