A mother's promise / K.D. Alden
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false Cheshire Public Library - New Materials NEW FICTION ALDEN
DUE 04-27-21 |
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false Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials F-ALDEN
DUE 04-21-21 |
Details
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- 373 pages ; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Virginia, 1924. Ruth Ann Riley is 17 years old when she gives birth to a baby girl. Unwed and under-educated, she's deemed "feeble-minded" -- just like her own mother -- and sent to live in a state-run institution where the doctors decide she must be sterilized "for the greater good." But Ruth Ann won't give up her baby Annabel or the hope of future children without a fight, even though her hardscrabble life and sixth-grade education have in no way prepared her to take on the Supreme Court of the United States. As Ruth Ann comes of age in a daunting world and struggles with secrets and scandals in her past, she finds unexpected allies, friendship and the possibility of love in the most unlikely of places"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Involuntary sterilization -- Fiction.
- Single mothers -- Fiction.
- Virginia -- Fiction.
- Involuntary sterilization.
- Single mothers.
- Virginia.
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Legal fiction (Literature)
- ISBN
- 9781538718179 (trade paperback)
- 1538718170 (trade paperback)
- 9781538718186 (ebook)