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The Girls We Sent Away
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781728257181
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
An important and vital story. -- Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow Hill
Engaging, shocking, heart-wrenching. -- Library Journal
A compassionate novel about loss and broken dreams. -- Washington Post
A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of the 1960s about the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.
It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of the stars. It's ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional.
But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded.
To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven - it's a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life, she must decide if she can fight against the powers that aim to take her child or submit to the rules of a society she once admired.
Powerful and affecting, The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel that explores autonomy, belonging, and a quest for agency when the illusions of life-as-you-know-it fall away.
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