The home for unwanted girls : a novel
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New York : Harpercollins Publishers, 2018.
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Harpercollins Publishers, 2018.
Format
Book
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364 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English

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In 1950s Quebec, the 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, Gabriel Phénix, on the neighboring farm. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel. 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 rasied in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. It's an insecure 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 orphanges. Withstanding abyssmal treatment at the nuns' hands, Elodie finally earns her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world. Maggie, married to a businessman who is eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to adandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. Over the years, Maggie and Elodie's lives have intertwined but never touched, but they are finally brought together when Maggie goes search of her long-lost daughter, reclaimimng the truth that has been denied them both. -- from book jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, J. (2018). The home for unwanted girls: a novel . Harpercollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, Joanna, 1969-. 2018. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel. Harpercollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, Joanna, 1969-. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel Harpercollins Publishers, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, Joanna. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel Harpercollins Publishers, 2018.

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