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The Able McLaughlins is a novel by Margaret Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It follows a family of Scotch Covenanters who settled the American prairies in the 1860s. The McLaughlin s oldest son Wully has just returned from the Civil War planning to marry his sweetheart Christie McNair, but for some reason, she won t talk to him anymore. Wully finds himself hurt and perplexed until he finds out that the cause of her rejection is the terrible secret she has been keeping…