“The Spare: Part 1” by Marsha May Fairchild Sumpter is now available for purchase

“As our nation struggles to stand upright against the deficit that continues to climb as well as reducing the middle and poor class to all poor with the high price of fuel, which in turn raises the cost of consumable items, we need to regain perspective and faith and control.”

– an excerpt from the book

Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “The Spare: Part 1” by Marsha May Fairchild Sumpter. The book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.

Author Marsha May Fairchild Sumpter was born and raised on a working ranch twenty-eight miles north of Philip, South Dakota. As young people, they worked hard and played hard, and events that occurred caused considerable pain to her both mentally and physically.

Her choices were not the best, and at seventeen, she was very much on her own. The saying “I was the only hell my mother ever raised” was probably very accurate. She writes this to tell you what it was like growing up and to let others know their choices are important to their future.

She has had many life experiences, both good and bad, over the years. Growing up in the 1940s, every farmer/rancher in South Dakota was dirt poor, trying to produce a crop when there was no rain, or the grasshoppers took over or hail came and wiped out all.

The hard work left its mark on this young person. It was always the next year’s country. Did she want to live and work at this all her life? That wasn’t a question that she asked herself, but she stayed away from that lifestyle at an early age.

After marriage, at a young age, it was “you made your bed, lie in it,” and she was destined to finish high school and care for a baby before knowing anything about babies other than lambs, calves, and pigs. Poverty was a way of life for this young couple, scrimping to make ends meet. Work consisted of being a bus driver at age eighteen, a short-order cook, and finally going on to get more education and work in offices.

“The Spare: Part 1” is published in the hopes that people will see what a hardship it was to persevere in the rough times of the formation of this country. The hearty folks who came, settled, and weathered the many storms and trials handed them by Mother Nature and life in general have to be applauded and revered for their persistence.

“The Spare: Part 1” by Marsha May Fairchild Sumpter is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/the-spare-part-1.