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PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780312542702 (hbk.), 0312542704 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women