The Lies They Told (eBook)

Ellen Marie Wiseman (Autor)

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2025
384 Seiten
Kensington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4967-4151-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline. When Lena Contia young, unwed mothersees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned. Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing ';inferior genes.' After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughterand protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Alternate History • based on a true story • based on real life • best selling books 2025 • Blue Ridge Mountains • books historical fiction best sellers • Catherine Ryan Hyde • catherine ryan hyde books • Coming of Age • coming of age fiction • Diane Chamberlain • Drama • Ellen Marie Wiseman • Ellis Island • Eugenics • Fiction • fiction books • forced sterilization • German immigrants • Historical • historical fiction • historical fiction best sellers • historical fiction best sellers 2025 • historical fiction books • historical fiction novels • historical literary fiction • historical novels • inspired by a true story • Kristina McMorris • kristin hannah the women paperback • literary fiction • Mental hospital • mental institution • mountain people • Novels • ny times best selling books 2025 • Shenandoah National Park • the life she was given • The Lost Girls of Willowbrook • the orphan collector • the plum tree • Virginia • Virginia state colony McMorris • what she left behind • Women’s Fiction
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-4151-X / 149674151X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-4151-6 / 9781496741516