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Gardenias

by Faith Sullivan

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ISBN13: 9781571310453
ISBN10: 1571310452
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It's 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and waiting for the train going to Los Angeles. Young men — soldiers — swarm the platform, heading off to war. Against this dramatic backdrop, Gardenias revisits Faith Sullivan’s most beloved characters from The Cape Ann taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks. Arlene has left her husband behind after he gambled away the money she'd saved to finally build the Cape Ann house of her and Lark's Depression-era dreams. As a new life takes shape in San Diego in a wartime housing project full of neighbors they know little about, Lark wonders, as does the reader, if a dream means losing everything of value or finally finding it.

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"Abandoning Depression-ravaged Minnesota and the alcoholic husband who drank away the family savings, Arlene Erhardt moves to California in early 1942 in search of a new life, bringing along her sister Betty and daughter Lark, the too-precocious narrator of this tale of independence, loyalty, hope and crushed dreams. The Erhardts land in a San Diego housing project, where Lark is left alone to sort out her new world while Betty and Arlene work. Though Lark makes a less than credible nine-year old (her habit of reading a dictionary notwithstanding), she endears herself to the reader through her innocence and curiosity." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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This novel revisits the author's most beloved characters from "The Cape Ann," taking them from their hometown to new lives, new dreams, and new risks in San Diego.

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ISBN:
9781571310453
Author:
Sullivan, Faith
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Women
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Publication Date:
August 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
381
Dimensions:
8.70x5.68x1.33 in. 1.28 lbs.

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