The Christian Century, July 5th, 1995
Of course, families that stick together don't always have an easy time of it. The Bridges of Madison County, based on Robert James Waller's much-maligned but enormously popular novel, focuses on a four-day affair between an Iowa farmer's wife and a traveling National Geographic photographer.
The story is told as a flashback: a family gathers for the funeral of Francesca, an Italian immigrant who married as a war bride. She has left her personal journal to explain why she wants to be cremated and her ashes thrown from one of the local covered bridges. In reading the journal her two adult chi...
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