| The Whitsun Daughters Contributor(s): Mesrobian, Carrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0735231958 ISBN-13: 9780735231955 Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Pregnancy - Young Adult Fiction | Ghost Stories - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019047959 |
| Lexile Measure: 910 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.61 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How quickly everything in the world disintegrates. Everything but the loneliness of young women. So begins The Whitsun Daughters, a story of three girls in a small Midwestern town, narrated by the ghost of a young Irish immigrant who, over a century earlier, lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland the girls and their mothers now call home. Award-winning author Carrie Mesrobian weaves the story of the girls' day-to-day struggles with the fractured and harrowing memories of their unseen observer. The threads of the tales are familiar: An arranged marriage. An impulsive proposal bitterly refused. Secret affairs. And pregnancies, both welcome and not. Each young woman fights her own lonely battle in the generations-long war of those who would no longer settle for haunting the margins of a world that wants to ignore them. |