The home for unwanted girls: a novel
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New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018].
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition.
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605 pages ; 22 cm
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018].
Format
Large Print
Edition
Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition.
Language
English

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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 dont include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Ph�nix. 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. --,Amazon description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, J. (2018). The home for unwanted girls: a novel (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition.). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

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

Goodman, Joanna, 1969-. 2018. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

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

Goodman, Joanna, 1969-. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Goodman, Joanna. The Home for Unwanted Girls: A Novel Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.

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