The story related in this novel is heartbreaking and very true for the many young women of the 50s and 60s that found themselves pregnant and unwed. The sentiment of that time period was that the status of the women created humiliation and shame for their family and was to be hidden at all cost. Homes existed for that sole purpose-to house the women until the child was born and adopted.
This novel deals with the circumstances of a seventeen year old in 1968 whose family sends her away and of her coming to terms with her particular situation. She and her roommate form a tight bond and she, as a budding journalist, begins to capture their stories along with her own.
It is a story that resounds with anger, bewilderment, humiliation, and shame, all woven together to relate a piece of history easily forgotten.
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