Easy
Jeannie's second novel is soon to be completed.

"How could I help but remember that day Mother and I left, the wind’s invisible fist threatening to throw us off the cart? How could I help but remember our laps wrapped in blankets, the hard wooden seat, the way the cold froze the rim of my nose, the hens clucking in the cage, the pony clopping along behind, the clumps of prairie grasses jarring us all? How could I help but remember the prickle of brown papers under our clothes, the cart loaded with our bedding, a sack half full of our few potatoes, a pot filled with unground corn, jars coddled in our pillows against breakage filled with food to see us through a few days? How could I not but remember the ache in my bent finger which I could not fit into a glove after Father’s last blow, nor the drained sallow of Mother’s cheeks? And how could I not remember the pale lift of my own joy?"

Recently rediscovered by art collectors, Robert Henri’s early Twentieth-Century art gave birth to what is now known as the Ashcan School. His art continues to influence the work of artists even today. Beginning with his father’s killing of a rancher on the barren prairie of Nebraska, Easy reveals Henri’s driven pursuit of art as a young man, blending fact and fiction, and interweaving Henri’s life with the lives of his struggling group of followers. Easy is told through the eyes of Ezekiel Harrington, an on-looker. Easy bears witness to the fight for equality of women at the turn of the century, to the vibrancy of early Philadelphia and it allows us into the incredible lives of artists who strove to elbow their ways out of Victorian mores and the confines of traditional art of the late Nineteenth century.

Jeannie is also doing research on her third novel which set in a time not long from now, in a time when the world no longer experiences hunger. The story examines our world crowded with humans whose numbers grow exponentially every month. And it examines the effect when one, lone scientist, decides to take Earth’s future into her own hands.