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What she left behind / Ellen Marie Wiseman. / Wiseman, Ellen Marie
Título : What she left behind / Ellen Marie Wiseman. Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Wiseman, Ellen Marie, Autor Editorial: New York : Kensington Books Fecha de publicación: 2014 Número de páginas: viii, 328 p. Dimensiones: 21 cm. ISBN/ISSN/DL: 9780758278456 Nota general: Includes reading group guide. Palabras clave: Mystery fiction. Family secrets--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction. Mentally ill--Fiction. Nota de contenido: "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 cataloging 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 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" -- Summary taken from Back Cover. What she left behind / Ellen Marie Wiseman. [texto impreso] / Wiseman, Ellen Marie, Autor . - New York : Kensington Books, 2014 . - viii, 328 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN : 9780758278456
Includes reading group guide.
Palabras clave: Mystery fiction. Family secrets--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction. Mentally ill--Fiction. Nota de contenido: "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 cataloging 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 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" -- Summary taken from Back Cover. Reserva
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