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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     Fiction & Biography     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     Goodman, Joanna, 1969-     Subjects     Orphans -- Fiction.     Teenage mothers -- Fiction.     Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Goodman, Joanna, 1969-       by title:      The home for unwante...         MARC Display

The home for unwanted girls / Joanna Goodman. by Goodman, Joanna, 1969- New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] Subjects Orphans -- Fiction.   Teenage mothers -- Fiction.   Québec (Province) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780062834089 Description:  364 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Genre:  Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Summary:  In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. It's a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns' hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world. Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both. Number of holds on the title:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Trumbull Library Fiction Collection FIC GOO Checked In Place Request on this Copy Only Fairchild Nichols Memorial Library Main Floor FIC GOO Checked In Place Request on this Copy Only Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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