Author Description

Ray takes readers on a nostalgic journey to turn-of-the-century rural New Hampshire, where Anna's parents realize that their seven-year-old daughter has a gift for music. They buy her a piano, and she makes weekly train trips into Boston-107 miles away-to take lessons. She practices constantly-so much so that her family nicknames her "Pianna." When she marries at age 17, she begins to raise her family and the lessons stop, but she continues to play-at churches, for the Grange, but mostly for herself.