Vinegar Hill

A. Manette Ansay’s powerful book “Vinegar Hill” transports readers to a world of guilt, pain, and troubled spirits. The story which takes place in 1972, centers on Ellen Grier’s family’s return to Holly’s Field, Wisconsin. Ellen brings her two kids to her in-laws’ Vinegar Hill house with her recently laid-off spouse. This cold, unloving home is filled with routine, planned brutality, and bitterness—a life prescribed by an angry, inflexible God.