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Reliance, Illinois

✍ 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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✦ Synopsis


"Reliance, Illinois has it allβ€”mystery, politics, war; love, death, and art. Every page is a pleasure."
β€”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...


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