Generations

Generations: A Novel in Three Voices

Inspired by a pencil drawing of the same name by Tommie Lee Thomason, Generations is a quiet, deeply felt family novel set on a Michigan farm across nearly a century.

The story centers on one small nursery room and the women who pass through it: a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter, linked by the same walnut cradle, the same wooden toy soldier known as the General, the same rag doll, and the same faded wallpaper.

Told through three successive voices, the novel follows ordinary lives marked by love, loss, restlessness, resilience, and the stubborn continuity of home. It is a story about the small rooms that carry a family’s history and the quiet ways love is passed from one generation to the next.