Libro The Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Coul De Goodman, Joanna

portada The Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Could not be Broken - Inspired by True Events

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Joanna Goodman

Editorial

Harper Paperbacks

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780062684226

Categorías

Ficción literaria
Novelas sobre la vida en familia

The Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Could not be Broken - Inspired by True Events

Joanna Goodman (Autor) · Harper Paperbacks · Tapa Blanda

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Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit--the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'.Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. It's a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns' hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world.Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.

Joanna Goodman

(Autor)

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Nacida en Montreal el 21 de mayo de 1969, Joanna Goodman es autora de cinco novelas, algunas de ellas éxitos de venta. Reside en Toronto con su marido e hijos. Es dueña de la compañía de ropa Au Lit Fine Linens.

Sus textos han aparecido en publicaciones como The Fiddlehead o The New Quarterly. Su narrativa bebe de autores como Margaret Atwood, Meg Wolitzer, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alice Munro o Jonathan Franzen.

Su primera obra traducida al español fue El hogar de niñas indeseadas, una novela inspirada en hechos reales que sigue los pasos de Maggie y Elodie, una madre y una hija separadas por sus circunstancias. También se han publicado en nuestro idioma El internado suizo y La hija olvidada.

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