Who wrote A Map of the World published in the late 1990s?

Answer 1

Published in 1994 by Jane Hamilton. In December 1999, the book was featured in Oprah's book club.

Synopsis: Howard and Alice Goodheart, have labored mightily to create a pastoral paradise in a Wisconsin subdivision. Their 400-acre dairy farm is the last in Prairie Center, and they're working flat out to raise their two young girls in a traditionally bucolic manner. Yet paradoxically, they strike their neighbors as unacceptably modern, and have been treated as interlopers since the day of their arrival. Howard, in love with his vocation, chooses not to believe that they've been frozen out. But Alice, flinty and quick to judge, finds things harder. And her job as school nurse doesn't work wonders for her reputation either. Happily, there's one exception to this epidemic of unfriendliness: their closest neighbors. Theresa and Dan, who also have two young daughters, function as a virtual lifeline for the embattled family.

Answer 2

Jane Hamilton wrote "A MAP OF THE WORLD" which was published in 1994 as her second novel which was also a selection of the Oprah Book Club and an international bestseller. Her first novel was THE BOOK OF RUTH, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Rochester, Wisconsin.
A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a single mistake can forever change the lives of everyone involved — in ways that are beyond imagination.