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Lädt ... The Girls with No Names: A Novel (2020. Auflage)von Serena Burdick (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Beautiful novel about about the lives of the wealthy Tilden family living in New York. Daughters Luella and Effie are loved but what they can do and where they go, other than school and church, is restricted by their parents, mostly by their father. After discovering a friendly gypsy camp in a nearby woods; the girls visit often as they find the music, dancing, people and culture compelling and enriching despite their parents' warnings. Once they realize their father is no saint, Luella becomes enboldened and flippant with her parents. Then she leaves home without telling Effie. Effie is bewildered, and makes a ruinous decision that changes the Tilden family forever. This book is similar to Hannah Tinti's 'The Good Thief' recently read. Ren and Effie have similar personalities, are smart, strong, caring; and don't allow their 'weaknesses' to get the best of them. Both eventually get their freedom and find 'home' after abysmal experiences. Excellent plot, characters, dialog, and timing. Great read! Luella and Effie are young women coming into their own. Born into a rich and affluent family, they both chafe against the rules and restrictions of high society. After befriending a group of Gypsy's that are camping nearby, Luella disappears. Effie believes her parents have sent her to the House of Mercy, a workhouse for troubled girls. Determined to find her sister, Effie pays a poor local to turn her into the workhouse. Once inside, Effie realizes that she has made a horrible mistake. This book was a bit slow to start. However, it really picked up momentum once Luella disappeared. At times Effie came across as a bit younger than her age, but perhaps this was on purpose to enhance her innocence and the shock of the workhouse. Both Effie and Luella were extremely likeable and interesting. Overall, well worth picking up. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Fiction.
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Historical Fiction.
HTML:INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhoodâ??inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules. Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister. But she made a miscalculation, and with no one to believe her story, Effie's own escape seems impossibleâ??unless she can trust an enigmatic girl named Mable. As their fates entwine, Mable and Effie must rely on their tenuous friendship to survive. Home for Unwanted Girls meets The Dollhouse in this atmospheric, heartwarming story that explores not only the historical House of Mercy, but the livesâ??and secretsâ??of the girls who stayed there. "Burdick has spun a cautionary tale of struggle and survival, love and family â?? and above all, the strength of the heart, no matter how broken." â?? New York Times Book Review "Burdick reveals the perils of being a woman in 1913 and exposes the truths of their varying social circles." â?? Chic Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This is a great book, and the fact that it is available during our current time in history is also incredibly timely.
Serena Burdick takes us on a fictional ride during the turn of the 19th Century with Luella, a headstrong fifteen-year-old, and Effie, her sickly younger sister, who adores Luella. The girls grow up in an affluent family in New York City during a time when women have no rights and, at the behest of a male (think father, husband, judge), can be "sentenced" to a reformatory known as a laundry house. These sentences ranged from about three years to indefinite. The transgressions for landing a female in a laundry house were anything from kissing a boy to disobeying the head male of the house (again, think father, husband, or brother).
Luella runs away, and Effie, who thinks their father sent Luella to Mercy House as punishment for her bold behavior, gets herself checked into the laundry house to find Luella. We follow Effie's days of work, torcher, and wrongful imprisonment at Mercy House.
Catholic Nuns ran the laundry houses, wherein they took in the wash of the wealthy in the community and pocketed the money. The girls sentenced to these places were often literally worked to death. Many were left there and forgotten; all were abused and abandoned.
We learn about these laundry houses from Ms. Burdick. They began in Ireland and sprung up all over the United States, hundreds of them throughout the country, where thousands of women were sent for any number of transgressions. Ireland has recognized its past in this regard; the United States has not. As a result, these women have essentially gone into obscurity; they are The Girls with No Names.
This book, released in 2020, touches on many issues that people in 2022 need to pay attention to, lest the past repeats itself.
READ THIS BOOK. READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND BRING IT INTO TODAY'S CONTEXT. You will not regret it. (And it's an excellent book besides - bonus!) ( )