Mara’s father, Jonas, was small but hard-boned, his hair a white halo and his eyes the color of iron. He had taught Mara to straighten a bent axle with nothing but a mallet and patience. He had taught her to read the weather in the tilt of a gull's wing. He had also taught her to listen—the NuWest way—by asking the right quiet questions and then waiting while the truth lightened in someone’s face.
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