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Paper Fortunes
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Woolton Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Chicago, 1937. The Great Depression has tightened its grip on the city, and three women find themselves bound together by the Elizabeth Sullivan Home for Destitute and Degenerate Women-a crumbling Victorian mansion that promises refuge while quietly trading in secrets.
Marian Walters, a disgraced nurse, arrives at the Home hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds herself drawn into the life of Opal Olson-a mentally challenged young woman who turns up at the Home unable to explain her circumstances, carrying only a worn quilt and a small bag of paper fortunes. As Marian attempts to unravel the mystery of Opal's past, a crisis forces her to choose between following the rules and following her conscience.
Across the city in a Drexel Boulevard mansion, wealthy socialite Evelyn Porter is suffocating beneath her mother's expectations and her own private grief. After a stay at a discreet country sanitarium fails to mend what is broken inside her, Evelyn returns home convinced that one thing alone can save her - and she is about to learn that what she wants most in the world may come at a price she never anticipated.
Told in three interwoven voices, Paper Fortunes is a story about three women whose fates become tangled in a way none of them could have predicted-andthe fragile, paper-thin line between the futures we are given and the futures that can still be rewritten.
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