| Edition |
Center Point Large Print edition. |
| Description |
511 pages (large print) ; 22 cm |
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text rdaconten |
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unmediated rdamedi |
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volume rdacarrie |
| Summary |
The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons? graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith breathes life into a unique moment in American history, imagining the experience of five of these women. They are strangers at the start, but their lives will become inextricably intertwined, altered in indelible ways. These very different Gold Star Mothers travel to the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery to say final good-byes to their sons and come together along the way to face the unexpected: a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed |
| Source |
NBK 3/14 PPL |
| Subject |
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
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Parental grief -- Fiction
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United States -- History -- 1919-1933 -- Fiction
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
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Cemeteries -- France -- Verdun -- Fiction
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Large type books
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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War stories.
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Love stories.
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| ISBN |
9781628990362 (lg. print) |
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1628990368 (lg. print) |
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