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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Rue And Roses

Rue And Roses

Langer, Angela

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 9371816600
ISBN13: 9789371816601
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Rue and roses explores the interior life of a young woman shaped by hardship, cultural restraint, and emotional solitude. Raised in a modest German household, she reflects on a childhood shadowed by her father s financial failure, her family s frequent moves, and the constraints placed on women. Now a governess, she shoulders responsibility while longing for a life of love, creativity, and greater personal freedom. Poetry becomes her private form of expression, offering a contrast to the emotional silence of her surroundings. Vivid recollections of holidays and domestic tension deepen the sense of longing that permeates her days. As she navigates the expectations of her social role and her internal desire for something more, she begins to understand the weight of her dreams and the emotional costs of her reality. The novel traces her quiet resistance against a life of limited opportunity, revealing how memory, art, and introspection become acts of survival. Her story becomes a meditation on class, gender, and the longing for a richer emotional and creative life.

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