“For readers interested in a novel about family life and American history between the 1880s and the 1920s, about struggling to survive on the homesteads of the mid-western prairie and in both small town and city without economic resources, about the history of the suffrage movement, about love and loyalty, loss and achievement, life and death, Judith Schaefer’s Horizons is a delightfully written and carefully researched gem. Minnie, the center of the bright and hardworking family in South Dakota, and her daughter, Sarah, who dreams of going to college and being a writer, are both admirable and strong in their different ways. Together, with other amazing female and male characters, they depict the evolution of women’s expanding “horizons” from home on the farm to Sarah’s life in Chicago amid the social, artistic, and literary upheavals of her generation. Schaefer has written a wonderful novel of determination and courage that takes its place in the tradition of Giants in the Earth and O Pioneers! I loved reading Horizons and did not want to put it down."
~ Lois A. Cuddy, Penelope’s Song