Reliance, Illinois
β Scribed by Mary Volmer
- Book ID
- 109348048
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616956721
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β¦ Synopsis
"Reliance, Illinois has it allβmystery, politics, war; love, death, and art. Every page is a pleasure."
βKaren 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...
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**"_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 fu
Finn No Last Name lives her life exactly the way she likes. Sure, she lives on a Mud Pit with some of the worst criminals and cast-offs the Reliance has to offer, but she has a knack for stealing things that has earned her a reputation as the best thief the Farthers has to offer. Unfortunately for F