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Abbie Deal, the matron of a pioneer Nebraska family, has passed on toward the start of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and substantial furniture to other people and her granddaughter Laura the mystery of her fantasy of better things. Grandmother Deal's abstract yearnings had been foiled by the difficult conditions of her life, yet Laura promises that nothing, nobody, will prevent her from an effective composition vocation. Youth passes, and the more she rehashes her promise the more life intercedes.