Necessary Lies
Diane Chamberlain,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by St. Martin's Press on 09-03-2013
Diane Chamberlain,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by St. Martin's Press on 09-03-2013
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781250010704 (1250010705)
ASIN: 9781250010704
Publish date: 03-09-2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Fiction,
Historical
Picture a small southern town fifty years ago. Fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is a tenant on a tobacco farm. Unlike other young girls her age, she is the head of household. Ivy cares for her grandmother, older sister and baby nephew. With her grandmother's aging, her older sister's mental illness, her ba...
Powerful and thought provoking. A story primarily told by two girls/women living in North Carolina in the early sixties. As a woman this story really pulls you. Eugenics and sterilization was used and practiced during this time to prevent pregnancy in women and fertility in men deemed “unfit”. Howev...
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