The Daughter's Walk: A Novel Review

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The Daughter's Walk: A Novel ReviewI decided to read The Daughter's Walk because it sounded like such an interesting story-two women walking across the country for a wager in the late nineteenth century. What a fascinating premise for a novel! The fact that this walk is an actual historical event makes it even more interesting. Of all the main characters in the novel, only three are completely fictional. Clara, her mother, her siblings, and the two female furriers who Clara goes to work for are all real people whose names have not been changed.
The novel spans forty years of Clara Estby's life from the time her mother first decided to walk across the country and take Clara along, to her mother's death decades later. Part one, which is almost half the length of the book, recounts in fictional detail the walk from Spokane to New York City. Part two, which spans most of the second half of the book imagines what Clara's time in exile from her family was like, and part three, which is just a few pages long, tells of how Clara made peace with the remaining members of her family over twenty years later.
The backdrop for the entire story is the early feminist movement, which began to gain widespread support in the late nineteenth century. Helga Estby was a suffragette, and although Clara begins her journey without any feminist inclinations, we soon find her embracing the independent lifestyle of a businessperson which was rarely pursued by women in those days.
Being a Christian novel, there is mention of God, but I feel that this is one of those books where God is tacked onto the story as an afterthought. Take God out of this story and you probably wouldn't miss Him much. Even more disappointingly, there is no satisfying spiritual resolution. Yes, Clara is reunited and forgiven by the remaining members of her family, but there is very little mention of God in all of this, and Clara's apparent distance from God during her familial exile is never satisfactorily resolved.
The value I found in this book comes from the fact that it is a true story. It's a fascinating piece of history which I enjoyed learning about and engaging in through fiction. The Daughter's Walk is very well-written and the characters are well-developed. The parts of the plot that were completely imagined (Clara's relationship with Franklin comes to mind) are believable and fit well within the broader context of the story. For this reason I think it was worth reading, though I did not find within the pages the soul food I was expecting.The Daughter's Walk: A Novel Overview

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