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The Philadelphia Matriarch
Paperback
Publisher: Beth Brubaker
Published: Aug 21 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A poignant tribute to maternal strength, perseverance, and quiet transformation...
The Philadelphia Matriarch is inspired by true events and traces the remarkable journey of Estella, a woman whose world is upended in the early 20th century when her husband abandons her and their three children. The heartbreak deepens when her children are taken from her and placed in an orphanage-without her consent. Her youngest daughter is then fostered into an Amish family, separated from her siblings. Determined to reunite her family, Estella reinvents herself in Philadelphia, forging an unexpected path of independence as a woman working in banking-an extraordinary feat in an era when such roles were rarely open to women. Her resilience unfolds amid the sweeping social changes of World War I, the suffrage movement, and Prohibition.
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