Sign-In
Cart
The Fallen Woman's Daughter
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
Publisher: Woolton Press
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A compelling, poignant story. Michelle Cox writes flawed, fascinating women with understanding, compassion, and grace-I rooted for them with every turn of the page!- Kate Quinn, New York Times best-selling author
Cox offers a powerful saga that plunges into the complexity of family, love, forgiveness, and the cyclical nature of three-generational family dynamics.-Booklife, Editor's pick
An addictive read!-Kirkus Reviews
When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there's been some mistake. She can't imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron, Mrs. Morris. When their mother fails to rescue them week after week-and Mrs. Morris drops hints that their mother may be a fallen woman-Nora begins to doubt they will ever see her again.
Nine years prior, at seventeen, Gertie Gufftason runs off with Lorenzo, the barker for the traveling carnival passing through her small coal-mining town in Southern Iowa. Thinking she is embarking on a fantastic adventure, Gertie is bitterly disappointed by the life that follows and is thrown into despair when the State removes their two daughters.
Gertie eventually tracks down her girls at the Park Ridge, but, expecting a warm welcome, she is shocked by Nora's cool reception. Nora reluctantly returns home with Gertie and Patsy, determined to live a more perfect life than her mother. It is only when she discovers a secret Gertie has kept hidden all these years that Nora begins to fully understand-and forgive-her mother's tragic choices . . .
Perfect for readers who enjoy sweeping generational sagas featuring a mother-daughter bond tested across decades, sisters who survive a girls' home together, a long-buried family secret, and Depression-era women fighting to reclaim what was taken from them.
Also from
Cox, Michelle
Divine Beauty: Becoming Beautiful Based on God's Truth: 30-Day Devotional Book
Cox, Michelle
Gotzon, Jenn
Hardcover
Sustainable Wac: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
Galin, Jeffrey R.
Melzer, Dan
Cox, Michelle
Paperback
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback