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Daughter of Earth: A Novel of Awakening
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515467267
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley is a hauntingly intimate portrait of one woman's struggle for identity, freedom, and survival. Through the life of Marie Rogers, Smedley crafts a semi-autobiographical tale set against the harsh realities of poverty, class divisions, and political unrest. From the suffocating confines of a working-class childhood to the passionate search for purpose and independence, Marie's journey is told with raw honesty and quiet power.
With prose that is at once lyrical and uncompromising, Smedley reveals the resilience of the human spirit and the heavy price of defiance in a world determined to silence women's voices. Daughter of Earth is not only a deeply moving coming-of-age story, but also a stirring testament to endurance, independence, and the timeless search for meaning in an unjust world.
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