Paperback. Pub Date: Jan. 2011 Pages: 640 Publisher: Bantam With a master StoryTeller's skill and Precision A Historian's. Sara Donati has much delighted to Readers and CRITICS Alike with HER bestselling novels of the nineteenth-century New York frontier. Now SHE-ings us The Endless Forest. set in the remote village of Paradise. where the Bonner family that readers first met in Into the Wilderness make their home. The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise NY when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner. it's also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off places: Lily and her husband from Italy. and Martha Kirby. the Bonners' ward. from Manhattan. Although Lily is nursing her own grief. it is Martha. fleeing a crushing humiliation. who ings with her trouble that will reverberate in all their lives. In ...