Edition |
Center Point Large Print edition. |
Description |
448 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm |
Note |
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2016. |
Summary |
"A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"-- Provided by publisher. |
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1917. Beatrice Haven-- Jewish, unwed-- sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. Ten years later Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea's hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. Returning to her uncle's house she meets Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea's abandoned child-- now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear. |
Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Abandoned children -- Fiction.
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Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
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Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Abandoned children. (OCoLC)fst00794154
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
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Nineteen twenties. (OCoLC)fst01037835
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Massachusetts -- Cape Ann.
(OCoLC)fst01333554
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Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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ISBN |
9781683240945 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1683240944 |
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