The Whitsun Daughters

✍ Scribed by Carrie Mesrobian

• Book ID: 100559383
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 160 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0735231966

✦ Synopsis

"How quickly everything in the world disintegrates. Everything but the loneliness of young women."
So begins The Whitsun Daughters , a story of three girls in a small Midwestern town, narrated by the ghost of a young Irish immigrant who, over a century earlier, lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland the girls and their mothers now call home.

Award-winning author Carrie Mesrobian weaves the story of the girls' day-to-day struggles with the fractured and harrowing memories of their unseen observer. The threads of the tales are familiar: An arranged marriage. An impulsive proposal bitterly refused. Secret affairs. And pregnancies, both welcome and not. Each young woman fights her own lonely battle in the generations-long war of those who would no longer settle for haunting the margins of a world that wants to ignore them.

✦ Subjects

Abortion -- Juvenile fiction