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A carregar... What She Left Behindpor Ellen Marie Wiseman
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Tess_W | Jan 19, 2024 |  The other part of the story was equally satisfying - a teenage foster girl who stumbles on the diary of a woman forced to stay in the insane asylum for years (thanks to her heartless dad), and how the girl relates to this other "broken" woman. I don't want to give away too much, but as with Ellen's first novel, THE PLUM TREE, I felt like I was dropped into the setting of the book, really felt their emotions, and loved the story! (  ) JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |  ) nancynova | Oct 5, 2023 | Parts of this book read like horror. The things described are so traumatic I nearly couldn't read on. Parts are so over-the-top I just couldn't buy them. (The school knows nothing about their new student's past? A high school psychology teacher would start out a class by telling the class they're going to examine the exact same gruesome scenario that girl herself had to live through? - That's the spot where I exclaimed, "Oh for crying out loud," prompting my husband to remind me there's no rule that I have to keep reading.) Foster families are portrayed as unrealistically rosy. People are either too good or too bad. There is very little nuance. Big plot lines don't get wrapped up at all. Heavy-handed. Unsatisfying. (  ) CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 | ) debbie13410 | Oct 22, 2022 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past. Clara Cartwright, eighteen years old in 1929, is caught between her overbearing parents and her love for an Italian immigrant. Furious when she rejects an arranged marriage, Clara's father sends her to a genteel home for nervous invalids. But when his fortune is lost in the stock market crash, he can no longer afford her care-and Clara is committed to the public asylum. Even as Izzy deals with the challenges of yet another new beginning, Clara's story keeps drawing her into the past. If Clara was never really mentally ill, could something else explain her own mother's violent act? Piecing together Clara's fate compels Izzy to re-examine her own choices-with shocking and unexpected results. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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