| Edition |
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. |
| Description |
258 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published in hardcover format by Henry Holt and Company under the title Mothers and daughters. |
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Includes reading group questions. |
| Summary |
"Samantha{8217}s mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters{8212}relics of her mother Iris{8217}s past. But as Sam sifts through these family treasures, she uncovers evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And Sam, a struggling new mother herself, begins to see her own burdens in a completely different light. Moving from the tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece of America{8217}s past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest."--www.amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Motherhood -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781250009180 (pbk.) : $14.99 |
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1250009189 (pbk.) : $14.99 |
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