Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

✍ Scribed by Julie Kibler

• Publisher: Crown/Archetype
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 349 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0451499352

✦ Synopsis

**An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events.

"Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded women who came seeking a second chance and a sustaining hope." --Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours
**In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth's red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and "ruined" girls without forcibly separating mothers from...