Reliance, Illinois

✍ Scribed by Volmer, Mary

• Book ID: 109347736
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 292 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781616956721

✦ Synopsis

"Reliance, Illinois has it all--mystery, politics, war; love, death, and art. Every page is a pleasure."
--Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves _
Reliance, Illinois_ tells the story of a young woman faced with choices that will alter the course of her own future, and offers a brilliant window into American life during a period of tumultuous change. Illinois, 1874: With a birthmark covering half her face, thirteen-year-old Madelyn Branch is accustomed to cold and awkward greetings, and expects no less in the struggling town of Reliance. After all, her mother, Rebecca, was careful not to mention a daughter in the Matrimonial Times ad that brought them there. When Rebecca weds, Madelyn poses as her mother's younger sister and earns a grudging berth in her new house. Deeply injured by her mother's deceptions, Madelyn soon leaves to enter the service of Miss Rose Werner, prodigal daughter of the town's...